DEVONSHIRE - 1893 (1)

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DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. • WEAR GIFFARD• 663

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a cost of about £r,o6o, and in Feb. 1891 a flagstaff and the late John Melhuish esq. Messrs. Payne, Critchett and

weathercock were placed on the tower by the rector and the Bowden, are the chief landowners. Higher Pitt belongs to

churchwarden, Mr. Robert l\Iorgan: there are 130 sittings. Mr. Henry Gale; North Winbow and Headon to Mr. A.

The register dates from the year 156o. The living is a Ayre, and Hatswell to Mr. William Trebble. The soil is

rectory, average tithe rent-charge [311, net yearly V.ilue light; subsoil, partly clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats

[,263, including 35 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift and grass. The acreage is 3.319; rateable value, £3,531 ;.

of the trustees of Mrs. Lloyd-Worth, and held since 1890 by the population in 1891 was 355· Letters
the Rev. Clement Govett M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. Sexton, John Snell.
There are charities of over £4o yearly value. Worth House,
pleasantly situated, is the property of George Thomas esq. PosT 0FFICE.-William Cleeve, sub-postmaster.

The Worth estate which had been the property and residence through Tiverton, dispatched at 6.5 p.m.; delivered at

of the elder branch of the Worth family since the first half 7· 10 a.m. Tiverton is the nearest money order & tele-

of the 12th century, was sold in the years 1877 and 1888. graph office

George Thomas esq. who is lord of the manor, Thomas Parochial School (mixed & infants), built in 1836, for 6o

Carew Daniel esq. J. P. of Easterlands, the trustees of children ; average attendance, 38 ; l\Irs. Isabel Clee, mist.

Daniel Thomas Carew D.L., J.P. Chave William, farmer, Standerton & Heard Samuel, farmer, Marsh

Easterlands Church Pitt Henson John, farmer, Dry hill

Goodland Henry, Great Beauchamp CleeveMaryAnn(Mrs.),farmr.Spilliford Hill James, farmer, Ennerleigh

Govett Rev. Clement M. A. Rectory Cleeve William, shopkeeper, Post office Kerslake John, dairyman, Cowlings

Thomas George, Worth house . Curtis John, jun. farmer, Hatherland l\Iiddleton Richard,farmer, Hatherland

COMMERCIAL. Imill & Oland farm I Mogford James, farmer, Pilemore
Arscott Thomas, carpenter
FordRobrt.dairyman,Beauchamp dairy Morgan Robert, farmer,CotleighBarton

• Ayre Arthur, farmer, Winbow Gale John, farmer, Courtenay Norman John, farmer, Moorhayes

Burrows Wm. dairyman, Swinesbridge Haskings Frank, miller (water) & far- Trebble Wm.frmr.&landownr.Hatswell

Butt John,frmr. & landownr. LowerPitt mer, Washfield mills TuckerRichard,farmer,Higher Pitt frm

W ASHFORD PYNE is a small p&rish and scattered The soil is loam and clay, and the subsoil is clay. 'the

village, 9 miles north-west from Crediton station and 7 chief crops are grass, wheat and oats. The acreage is

north-west from Morchard Road station on the North r,qo; rateable value, £743; the population in 1891 was

Devon branch of the London and South Western railway, qr.
in the Northern division of the county, hundred of Withe- HIGHER and LowEn BLACK DoG are hamlets, xi miles

ridge, Crediton petty sessional division, union and county west and 4Gseoour(tJh'efWroimlliWs itheridge·
court district, rural deanery of West Tiverton and arch- Sexton

deaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Peter is ' "' · . . Bradford,. re~e~.ver.
a n edifice of stone in the Decorated style, rebui lt in r883 at PosT OFFICE, Black. Dog.-W.Ilham
a ,200, and consists of chancel, nav e, south Letters through Morchard BL<Jhop R.~.0. w~ICh 1s the
cost of about £ 1 nearest .money order & telegraph office, arrive a~ 5·55
a.m.; d1spatche~ at 7.25 p.m. Postal orders are ISSued
porch and a western tower, with tiled steeple, containing 3
bells, dated 20 and 1731 : the chancel
respectively 17s7, 16
was rebuilt in 1887 : there are 75 sittings. The register of here, but, not pa!d . .
baptisms and burials dates from the year 1742 ; marriages, Washford I yne lS mclud~d m th~ Woolfard1sworthy, :Wa~h-
1746. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge ford Pyne & Kennerle1gh Umted School Board d1str1ct,

[,75, net yearly value £us, including 156 acres of glebe, formed May 3, 1876

with residence, in the gift of C. Comyns Tucker esq. and Board School (mixed), erected in 1878, at Black Dog, for 95

held since 1892 by the Rev. William Henry Mitchell M.A. of children; 1werage attendance, 66; for the parishes of

Trinity College, Oxford. C. Comyns Tucker esq. of Mor- Kennerleigh, Thelbridge, Washford Pyne & Woolsery;

chard Bishop, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. William Henry Rogers, master; Mrs. Jane Rogers, mist

Mitchell Rev. William Henry 1\I.A. Burrows Charles, dairyman Radford Wm. dairyman, Town close
Rectory Cbapple Frederick, tailor Searle William, blacksmith
Chapple Wm. assist.overseer,Black Dog Selley Geo. farmer, Washford Barton
COMMERCIAL. Cobley Wm. Black Dog P.H. & farmer Southcott Henry, miller (water), Pens•
Dayment Henry,blacksmith, Black Dog
Bradford Wm. wheelwright ,Black Dog Hillacre Henry, farmer, Gate house ford mill
Bragg Jn. frmr. Wonham & Town close Lee Frederick, farmer, Henciford Sturgess Samuel, shopkeeper
Burnett William, dairyman, Pyne

WEAR GIFFARD is a parish on the river Torridge, wooded and fish are abundant in the river Torridge. Wear

4 miles south from Bideford station on the Torrington Hall, belonging to the Fortescue family, is an interesting ·
branch of the London and .South Western railway, 3 north- structure of the 15th century, consisting of a central block
west from Torrington, in the Northern division of the with wings, occupied for some time as a farmhouse, but
county, Sbebbear hundred, Torrington petty sessional divi- restored in 1832 by the late Hon. George Fortescue: the
sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of embattled gatehouse remains, and the dining hall, a noble
Hartland, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. apartment, 19ft. by 33 ft. has fine carved oak panelling and
The church of the Holy Trinity is an edifice of stone in the a beautifully carved oak roof: other portions of the mansion
Decorat€d style, consisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, retain similar work and some ancient portraits and tapes-
south porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, try : it is now occupied by John Henderson esq. This place
containing 6 bells, five of which were cast in 1765 by Thomas takes its name from the Giffard family, who held the manor

Bilbie, of Cullompton: the chancel has a fine roof of Perpen- during several centuries: in the reign of Henry VI. it

dicular date : in the north wall of the nave, within two re- passed by marriage to Martin, son of ~ir John Fortescue,

cessed arches, are two recumbent effigtes of a cross-legged Lord High Chancellor, from whom it has descended to its

knight and a lady; the former, placed on a wide altar-tomb, present owner, Earl Fortescue J.P., D.L. Earl Fortescue,
is in a suit of mail, with cowl, covered by a cyclas, or long- who is lord of the manor, the Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle
skirted tunic, and carries a shield and sword; the figure of and William Turner esq. of Rarton, Bideford, are the chief
the lady wears a coronet, and is attired in wimple and flowing landowners. The soil is good loam ; subsoil, clay. The
robes, covered by a mantle, and at the sides are mutilated chief crops are wheat, barley and oats. The area is 1,587
figures of angels holding up drapery; these effigies may acres; rateable value, £t,8s6; the population m 189I was
represent Sir Waiter Giffard,lord of this place in 1243, and 395·
his wife: there are also memorials to the :Fortescues, and a Parish Clerk, John Clark.

modern brass: the church was thoroughly restored and re- PosT 0FFICE.-John Gomer, sub-postmaster. Letters

seated and a new tenor bell hung in 1869: there are 300 received from Bideford at y9o. 1r d0ear. m. ; dispatched a.t 4·55
sittings. The register dates from the year 1583. The p.m. 'fbe neuest mone is at
& telegraph office

living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge .lr32, net Torrington. Postal orders are issued here, but not paid
yearly value _l129, including 5~ acres of glebe, with resi-
dence, in the gift of Earl Fortescue, and held since 1891 by WALL LETTER Box, Rectory wall, cleared at 5· 15 p.m

the Rev. Stephen Wade M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford. National (Endowed) School (mixed), erected in 186o &
Here are Wesleyan chapels. John Lovering's charity, having an endowment of [,22, invested in Consols, left
amounting to [,1o 1os. yearly, is distributed in money. by John Lovering in 1671 ; it will hold So children ;
There are lime-kilns on the quay. The country is finely average attendance, 62; David Rees, master

Balsdon Mrs. Wear Barton Henderson John, Wear hall COMMERCIAL.
Balsdon Richard P. Wear Barton Hill Mrs. Road cliffe
Cooper John Groves, The Hill Lloyd Mrs BalsdonEmma(Mrs.),frmr. WearBarton
Fernie Thomas Morris Misfiles, The Cottage
Wade Rev. Stephen M.A. Rectory Braddon William, hind to Messrs. Wm.
Fry Thomas, Mill house
Turner & Son, Oxhill farm •

Bright Emily (Mrs.), shopkeeper

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664 WEAR GIFFARD. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY's

Bright James, shoe maker IGomer William, sanitary inspector to Richards James, blacksmith
Torrington Rural :Sanitary Authority Short William, farmer
Bright William, wheelwright

Chamings Thomas, farmer, Little Wear Headon John, carpenter & wheelwright Start Noah, coachman & gardener to J.

Clark John, carpenter Isaacs John, farmer, Ventor Henderson esq. Road cliffe

Ellis Thomas, farmer, Salteins Martin Jas. farmer, Southcott Barton Tucker John, dairyman

Fry Thomas, miller (water), Wear mill Parr John, boot & shoe maker Wilton Isabella (Mrs.), farmer, Cleave

Gomer John, mason, Post office Perkin Robert, carter

WELCOMBE is a parish and village on the extreme Porter B.A. of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, who

borders of Dflvon and adjoining Cornwall on the south, its 1arerseidneoswatbeDinegremLaoddege(1, 8M93o)r,wweintshtotwhee, Cornwall. Efforts
greatest breadth being towards the coast, which at this co-operation of the

point is extremely grand ; it is 6 miles south from Hartland Ecclesiastical Commissioners, for the erection of a vicarage

and xo north from Stratton (Cornwall), and 15 south-west house, at an estimated cost of £"x,ooo. The Rev. R. S.

from Bideforu station on the Torrington branch of the Lon- Hawker, poet and antiquary, was 30 years curate here.

don and South Western railway, in the North Western divi- Outside the churchyard gate is an ancient "Holy Well.''

sion of the county, Hartland hundred, Bideford petty ses- Lord Cli11ton is lord of the manor. William F. Glubb, Mrs.

sional division,union and county court districtofHolsworthy, Walker, l\Ir. Richard Hedden, Mr. Thomas Hedden, and

rural deanery of Hartland, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and John Mear How, of East Ford, Little Torrington, are the

diocese of Exeter. The road from Bideford to Bude passes chief landowners. The valleys and cliffs bordering on this

along the borders of the parish. The church of St. Nectan parish are extremely picturesque. Welcombe Mouth and

is an ancient cruciform edifice of stone of the 12th or 13th Marsland Valley, referred to in Charles Kingsley's "West-

century, consisting of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch ward Ho!" are especially noted for their wild and enchant-

and an embattled western tower containing 4 bells, of ing scenery. '!'he soil is light, resting on hard sandstone.

which the first and third date from 1731: the tenor was also The chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The parish

of this date, but has been recast since the restoration of the contains x,751 acres; rateable value, £99r; the population

church; the second was recast in 1790: the church retains in 1891 was 193.

a very beautifully carved oak screen, and over the arches of Parish Clerk, Thomas Witheridge.

the transepts is some int-eresting carved work, representing L etters throuooh mStprtaotntoanreRt.She.O~eaarrerisvtemaotne1y0 a. m.· Hart-
on one side "the fruitful vine," and on the other "the land & Kilkba order' & tele"

barren fig tree: " the <:hurch was restored in 1883-4, and has graph offices LETTER Box cleared at xo a m
120 sittings. The register dates from the year 1653. The ' ·
living is a vicarage, rent-charge £"8, net yearly value £ 190, A School Board of 5 members was formed August 5, 1885;
including 117 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Crown and T. Braund, Hartland, clerk to the board

Lord Clinton alternately, but pro hacvicetheLord Chancellor Board School (mixed), erected in 1886, for 40 children;

by lapse, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Erisey John a¥erage attendance, 35; MiRS Muir, mistress

Harris Thomas, Church cottage Cook James, farmer, Meade Jollow John, farmer, Strawberry water
Mathews Henry E. Charter's Land
Skynner William Price, Welcombe ho Cornish Samuel, carpent~>r Moore John, farmer, Leddon
·walker Mrs. Welcombe house
Cottle John, thatcher, Lane park Mugford John, farmer, Meade
COMMERCIAL,
Branton Thomas, farmer, Well Redden John, farmer, Henneford Oke Samuel, farmer, Meade
Branton William, farmer, Withyford
Burrow Samuel, farmer, Henneford Redden Richard, yeoman, East town Oke Thomas, farmer, Meade
Burrow Samuel, farmer, Linton
Redden Thos. yeoman, Down cottage Redcliffe Benjamin, shopkeeper

Hedden William, yeoman, Upcott Wakely Ca.leb, blacksmith, Darracott

Howard Jesse Westlake,miller(water), Ward John, sen. farmer, Barton

West mill Ward John, jun. farmer, Darracott ·

Howard Louis, farmer, Underhill Witheridge Thomas, farmer, Upcott

WEMBURY is a parish on the south coast, 6 miles to the time of the Dissolution belonged to the priory of

south-east from Plymouth, in the Sou~hern di\'ision of the Plympton: it was built in 1577 and in 1592 it was acquired
county, hundred of Plympton, petty sessional division of by Sir John Hele kt. serjeant-at-law, adit~tinguished lawyer,
Ermington and Plympton, union of Plympton St. Mary, who died June 4th, x6o8, and was afterwards held by the

county court district of East Stonehouse, rural deanery of families of Pollexfen and Calmady, and Josias Calmady
Plympton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. rebuilt it in 1707. Wembury House, now owned and occu-

The church of St. Werburg, situated close to the sea and at pied by Dr. Clay, was built by Sir John Hele and then was

some distance from the village, is a plain building of local much larger than at present. R. Cory esq. .J.P. is the
stone in the Early English style, consisting of chancel, principal landowner. The soil is loamy; subsoil, clay and
nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower slate. The chief crops are wheat, oats, barley and turnips.
containing 3 bells, of which the first is dated x675, the second The area is 2,758 acres of land and 303 of tidal water and
i~ a plain bell badly cast, with the inscription "When I doe foreshore; rateable value, £4,329; the population in 1891
call, then follow me all," and the tenor dates from 1631 : in was 524.
the church are several monuments, including one dated DowN THOMAS, half a mile north-west, and KNIGHTON,
x677 to the family of Calmady : the church has been re- north-east, are hamlets.
stored and re-seated at a cost of upwards of £"3,0:><>, and PosT OFFICE, Knighton.-James Drake, sub-postmaster.

affords 280 sit'ings. The register of bapt.isms and burials Letters arrive from Plymouth, by letter carrier, at 9·5
dates from the year x6u; marriages, 1612. The living is a.m.; dispatched at 10.45 a.m. & 3·45 p.m. The nearest
a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £38, gross yearly money order office is at Oreston & the telegraph office is
value £288, in the gift of the Dean and Canons c.f Windsor, at Yealmpton. Postal orders are issued here, but not
and held since 1883 by the Rev. Charles Burgess. One of paid
the ancestors of Vincent Calmady esq. m x682, bequeathed Coastguard Station, John Brock, superintendent & 6 men

£soo, now £522 3s. xod. Consols, to the parish, the interest A School Board of 5 members was formed June 23, 1874;

of which is distributed in bread, coals and clothing. Lang- Philip Bateman, clerk to the board
don Court, a mile and a quarter distant, is the property of Board School, built in 1876 at a cost of £934, for 8o chil-
Richard Cory esq. .J.P. who is lord of the manor, which up dren; average attendance, 75; James Harry, master

.Armitage Fenton, South Wembury ho ClayRt.Hogarth M.D.srgn. Wembury ho Perring Alfred, Jubilee inn, Knighton

BurgessRev.Chas.[vicar],Wembury cot Cock Ernest, farmer, Down Thomas Pote Rt. shoe ma.& sexton of the parish

Calmady Miss, Knighton villa Coleman John, smith, Knight.on Pursley William, farmer & overseer of

Clay Robt. Hogarth M.D. Wembury ho Coleman Nicholas, farmer, Spurwell the parish, West Wembury farm

Coleman Nicholas, Spurwell Drake James, postmaster, Knighton Sherwill Wllliam, carpenter, Gabber

Cory Richard J.P. Langdon court; & 3 Giles Herbt. Pitts, frmr.Down Thomas Spurrell William, farmer, New barn

Elliot terrace, Plymouth Hurrell Thomas, New inn Symons Jn. blacksmith, Down Thomas

Rodney Frederick, Bovisand lodge Lakeman Nicholas, farmer, Manor frm Tolcher Elias, wheelwright & smith,

List.er Wm.farmer, Langdon Home frm Down Thomas

COMMERCIAL. Milden Daniel, carrier Williams lUchd. farmer, Gabber farm

ReerWm.miller(water),Wemburymill Nelder Arth. frmr. Train frm. Knightn Wilson James, farmer, Down 'l'homas

Cane Benjamin, farmer, Knighton Pearse Harold William, farmer, Lang- Wilson John, farmer, Prius farm

Cane Benj. jun. frmr. Wembury Barton don Barton

WEMBWORTHY is a parish 2 miles from the river sessional division, Crediton union and county court district,

Taw, 2 miles south-west from Eggesford station on the rural deanery of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry of Barnstapleand

North Devon branch of the London and South Western diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Michael is a plain

railway, 15 north-west from Crediton and 4! south-west building of stone in a modern Gothic style,consisting of chan-
from Chulmleigh, in the Northern division of the county, eel, nave, north aisle, south-west porch and an embattled

North Tawton and Winkleigh hundred, South Molton petty western tower, containing 3 bells : it was restored in x868 by

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. WERRINGTON. 665

the late Earl of Portsmouth at a cost of£350, when the Rev. name being now a farm-housP., called " Rashleigh Barton."
Peter Johnson, then rector, added the chancel and porch: The Earl of Portsmouth who is lord of the manor0 and John
there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year Tremayne esq. B.A., D L., .J.P. of Heligan, Cornwall, are the

I6H. The living is a rectory average tithe rent-charge chief landowners. The soil and subsoil are various. The
£129, net yearly value- £ISO, including 53 acres of glebe, chief crops are wheat, oats and barley. The area is 2,4IIA.
with residence, in the gift of the Earl of Portsmouth, who 3R. 2P.; rateable value, £1,788; the population in I891 was

has three turns in five, G. J. Cruwys esq. and another, and 370.
held since 1889 by the Rev. Charles Edward Cummings MA. Sexton, R. S. Cruwys.
of St. John's College, Cambridge. Here is a Congregational PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office (Rail-
chapel, to which a Sunday school was added in 1886, at a way Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. N. Devon,
cost of £2oo. Eggesford House, the seat of the Earl of added).-Joseph :Marshall, postmaster. Letters arrive,
Portsmouth D.L., .J.P. is a large and handsome mansion in per railway, at 4·47 a.m. ; dispatched at 8.20 p.m. The
the Elizabethan style, erected in 1832 and stands in a park nearest telegraph office is at Eggesford railway station
of about 300 acres, through which flows the river 'raw. School, for Wembworthy & Eggesford, supportedin part by
RASHLEIGH, a hamlet, including part of Bridge Reeve, and the Earl of Portsmouth, built in 1869 & enlarged in 1886,
formerly the residence of the Clotworthy family, but now for 150 children; average attendance, 109; Albert Henry
the property of John Tremayne esq. is in this parish, and Jones, master; Mrs. Jones, sewing mistress; Miss Ger-
contains a few scattered houses, that from which it takes its trude Holdway and Miss L. Vickery, additional teachers

Wembworthy. Littleworth Charles, huntsman to the Tanner James Melhuish, land agent to

Portsmouth Earl of n.L.,J.P. Eggesford Earl of Portsmouth . the Earl of Portsmouth, The Cottage

lheogues e~· tr2eeAt.bbeWy gardens Great Col- Marshall Joseph, carpenter, Post office Rashleigh.
Mitchell James, farmer, Paddons
estminster 8 w &
Brooks' club London 8 w P1dgeon William,Lymington Arms P.H Gardiner Jas. boot maker, "Bridge Reeve

CummingsRev:chas.Edwd.M.A.Rectory Perciful Frederick, farmer, Heywood Miller Arthur, farmer & miller (water)

Reed Edwd. farmr,Wembworthy down Parish William, carpenter

COMMERCIAL. Saunders George, farmer, Labdon Saunders John, frmr. Rashleigh B.1rton

Cole William, farmer, Upcott ~aunders William, shoe maker Underhill John, farmer, Bowrings

Cook Albert, farmer, Kineydown Simmons George, farmer . Underhill William, farmer, Gosses

Lambdon Thomas, carpenter Tancock Henry, farmer, Yellands

WERRINGTON is a parish on the river Tamar, on the yearly value £129, with residence and 4~ acres of glebe, in

high road from Launceston to Stratton, and separated from the gift of John Charles Williams e-;q. M.P. and held since

Cornwall by the river Attery: it is 2 miles north-east from 1887 by the Rev. Charles James Digges La Touche M. A. of

Launceston and 4 miles south- west from Tower Hill station St. John's College, Oxford. There is a Bible Christian chapel

on the London and South Western railway, in the Western at Bridgetown and a Wesleyan chapel at Lady Cross, built

dtvision of the county, Black Torrington hundred, Lifton in 1879 and seating x8o persons. PolaJ)it Tamar, the seat

petty sessional division, Launceston union and county court of Edward Coode esq. J.P. is a modern mansion in the Cinque

district, rural deanery of Trigg Major, archdeaconryof Bod- Cento style, with extensive grounds, in the eastern portion of

min and diocese of Truro. The Bude and Launceston canal, the parish, on the west bank of the Tamar. Werrington

which terminated at DRUXTON in this pat•ish, is now (x8g3) Park, the seat of John Charles Williams esq. M.P. is a beau-

in course of demolition. The church of SS. Martin and tiful estate in the southern portion of the parish, formerly

Giles was built in 1743, in the peculiar semi-classic style then belonging to the Duke of Northumberland ; the mansion

prevailing, and at that time was an oblong structnl'e, consist- stands on an eminence commanding extensive and varied

ing of nave with quasi-ehancel, shallow transepts and an views of woodland scenery: the larger portion of the estate

embattled western tower, with pinnacles, containing 2 bells, is in Cornwall, and the river Attery, which here divides the

both cast by John Pennington and Co. in 1769: the building counties, runs through the grounds: the park of 355 acres

had piain semicircular-headed windows and a flat ceiling ; is inclosed by a stone wall 8 feet high, and outsid~ this are

the transepts appropriated as private sittings, with en- woods and plantations of about ISO acres: the whole estate

trances from the outside, and the tower is singularly flanked has an area of 2,6oo acres. Ed ward Coode esq. who is lord

a few yards distant north and south by two dwarf replicas of the manor of Polapit Tamar ; the Duke of Bedford, who is

of itself; around the whole exterior of this edifice al'e equi- lord of the manor of Werrington; John Charles Williams

distant niches or alcoves, containing twelve life-sized figures, esq. M.P. of Werringtrm Park, and William Stert Milnes esq.

said to represent the Apostles; these were removed from of Yeolmbridge, are the principal landowners. The soil is

a former chlll'ch which stood in Werrington Park, as mostly clay; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat, oats

was also the circular Norman font and a curious mural and barley. The area of the parish is 4,240 acres; rateable

monument, with effigies in Elizabethan costume attached to value £4,366; the population in 1891 was 658, and is prin-

the outside of the east wall : on the south side is a memorial cipally agricultural.

window to the wife (1872) and two daughters (r86g and Deputy Sexton, Edmund Lane.

x871) of Edward C.:.ode esq. J.P. of Polapit Tamar: there National School, Lady Cross (mixed), erected by the Duchess

are 173 sittings. 'fhe church was restored in 18gr at a cost of Northumberland, in r865, for 130 children; average

of between 1,·2,500 and £3,000, under the direction of attendance, 90; Benjamin Thomas Vanstone, master

Messrs. St. Aubyn and Wadling, architects, of London; the YEOLMBRIDGE, in this parish, is on the river Attery, here

work comprised the building of a new chancel and organ crossed by a bridge; here also is an extensive slate quarry,

chamber, the erection of a new arched roof, the conversion the pi'operty of William Ste1·t Milnes esq. which exhibits

of the two galleries, or private pew3, into independent class some remarkable cleavage planes in arched strata. A

rooms, approached by spiral stone staircases, the tlnlarge- reading room with, library, is supported by the residen~

ment of the vestry, and the opening and fitting of the population.

chamber over the Morice vault; the tower was also new PosT 0FFJCE, Yeolmbridge.-Mrs. Annabella 'foms, sub-

mofed, the interior re-seated and re-floored throughout, the postmistress. Letters received from Launceston at 7·45

window frames renewed in stone, heating apparatus fixed and a. m.; dispatched at 4·55 p.m. Launceston is the nearest

a thorough system of drainage carried out. The register money order & telegraph office. Postal orders are Jssued

ddtes from the year 1653. The living is a vicarage, net here, but not paid
IWerrington.
1Butler Thomas, Fuller's Arms F.H. & Prout John, farmer, :Marshall

Adams Mrs. Leat shopkeeper, Langdon Reed G. A. yeoman, Collacott
Coode Edward J.P. Polapit Tamar Christopher Matthew Hy. farm bailiff Rowland William, farmer, Bridgetown
to J. C. Williams esq. M.P. Ham mill Smith Charles, farmer, Colehouse

Coode Capt. Richard Carlyon J. P. Pola- Chubb Richard, clerk & school attend- Sopel' Betsy (Mrs.), farmer, Lady cross

pit Tamar auce officer, North Petherwin school Stapleton John. farmer, Crossgate
La Touche Rev. Charles James Digges board, Langdon Stenlake Francis, farmer, Horrell

lll.A. Vicarage Crocker Chas. Henry, farmer, Druxton Sullivant Richard, farmer, Hessacott

Palmer William Simpson, Wringsdown Dinnis Hugh, farmer, Wormsland Tucker Thomas, farmer, Druxton

Williams Jn. Chas. M.P. Werrington pk Eggins Charles, farmer, Tetteridge Turner John, farmer, Colehill

COMMERCIAL, Gerry James, farmer, Bridgetown Waiters James, farmer, Peppershill
.Abbott Arthur, farmer, Bullapit
Hillson Thomas, head gamekeeper to · y ol b ·dg
John Charles Williams esq. M.P
e m rl e .

.Haker Thomas, farmer, Jays Hocking Samuel, blacksmith, Langdon Milnes William Stert

.llaker William, farmer, Eggbeare HutchingsThos.(Mrs.),frmr. Stowsdon Thomason Mrs

.Harnball Thomas, farmer, Tamartown Jasper Thos.farmer,Lower Sutton town Brimacombe Thomas, Blacksmiths'

&nnett Charles, market gardener & Lillicrapp Jn. Burt,farmr.Netherbridge Arms P.a. ro<~.d surveyor & assi:~tant

shopkeeper, Cross gate Martyn John,farmer, OldPolapit Tamar overseer

Benoy John Dyer, farmer, Grovetown Palmer James Thomas, farmer, Pool Foley Edward, captain of slate quarry

BurL William, farmer, Radford Parnell Henry, builder, Langdon Laue William, blacksmith

666 WERRINGTOX. DEVOXSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Ilvlilnes William Stert, slate quarry Reading Room & Library (Charles H., ~olkinhorn~ ~enry, boot maker
owner, miller (water) & farmer Foley, hon. sec) Shapton Wilham, shopkeeper

WEST HILL, or ST. MICHAEL's oN WEST HILL, 2 miles: by the Rev. Thomas Hill Lowe :M.A. of New Inn Half~

west from Ottery St. Mary, is an ecclesiastical parish, Oxford. There is a small Congregational chapel. The
formed May r, r863 ; it is in the Eastern division of the principal landowner is Sir J. H. Kennaway bart. D.L., ~.P.
1
county, Ottery St. Mary hundred and petty ses~;;ional divi- 1 T he soil and subsoil is gravel. The chief crops are oats and

sion, Honiton union and county court district, rural deanery barley. The population in 1891 was 334·

of Ottery and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The Sexton, Michael Clay.

church of St. Michael, erected in 1846, is a building of stone Letters through Ottery St.l\1ary, which is the nearest money

in the Early English style, and consists of chancel, nave, order & telegraph office, arrive at 8 a. m. & 5.30 p.m

south porch and a western turret containing 3 bells : there WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.25 p. m. week dajs •

are 192 sittings. The register dates from the year r846. Board School (mixed), under Ottery St. Mary School Board,

The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £r88, with resi- built, with residence for master, in r875, for 122 children;

dence, in the gift of the vicar of Ottery, and held since r887 average attendance, 86; John Henry Jackman, master

Elhs Francis Lilley, The Warren Bidgood Robert, shopkeeper Palfrey William, jun. farmer & road

Kinderley John, The Gap Hansford George, farmer contractor, Pittfield farm

Kitson John, Hawthorn dene Hawkings John, farmer Potter John, farmer

Lowe Rev. Thomas Hill M.A. Vicarage Heywood Albert George,miller (water), Potter John, jun. farmer

Obbard Major-Gen. Thomas, Fir grove Foxenhole mill Potter Thomas, blacksmith

Wadley Henry, West lodge Ireland Robert, farmer, West hill,Court Prince Samuel, farmer, Highlands

Weir Archibald, Bendarroch Kirby Hy.Harris,farmer,Wellington cot Rowe George, thatcher

Leatt George, farmer Skinner Charles, farmer

COMMERCIAL. Leatt Philip, farmer White Samuel, farmer, Castle farm

Baker George, farmer Potter Alfred, farmer

WESTLEIGH (or LEIGHWEsT) is a parish and village, tbe memory of Lieut. Archibald Cleveland (17th Lancers),

near the river Torridge and on the old road from Bideford who, after taking part in the famous cavalry charge at

to Barnstaple, 2 miles north-east from Bideford station on Balaclava, October 25th, r854, fell at lnkerman, November

the Torrington branch of the London and South Western lsth, in the same year; this.,memorial forms a prominent

railway and 7 south-west from Barnstaple, in the North object from the North Devon (South Western) railway from

Western division of the county, Fremington hundred, Barn- Barnstaple to Torrington. Edward Ralph Berry Torr esq.

staple union, Bideford petty sessional division and county who is lord of the manor, and A. L. Christie esq. are the

court district, rural deanery of Barnstaple and archdeaconry chief landowners. 'fhe soil is generally good ; subsoil,

and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Peter is an clay and light shale. The chief crops are wheat, barley

ancient building of stone, in the Early English style, con- and oats. The acreage is 2,456; rateable value, £3,o65 ;

sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, transept, south porch and an the population in 1891 was 483.

embattled western tower containing 6 bells, of which the EASTLEIGH 1 mile east and SOUTHCOTT half a mile south
first is dated 1740; tbe second bears a legend in old English are hamlets ' ' ' '

characters ; the third is dated r694 ; the fourth and fifth PosT · .. Joh~ Lemon, sub-postmaster. Let•
have inscriptions only: there are many monuments and 0FFICE-W;lham

several memorial windows: the church haTshe32l0ivsinitgtinisgs~. ters through B1defor.d arrive at 8.35 a. m. & 6 p.m.; letter
The register dates from the year rs6r. box cleared for mails at 8.35 a.m. ~ 5·75 p.m. The
vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £ 125, gross yearly nearest money o~der & telegraph offic;e 1s at lnstow.
value £225, net £ 18o, with residence and 48 acres of glebe, Postal orders are Issued here, but not paid
in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and held since WALL LETTER Box, Eastleigh, 9 a. m. & 5.30 p.m

r892 by .the Rev. John Benny White B.A. of St. John's Col- A School Board of 5 members was formed Sept. 20, 1872;
lege, Oxford. There is a Wesleyan chapel at Westleigh and

one at Eastleigh. Tapeley Park is the seat of .Augustus Frederick Lee, clerk to the board

Langham Christie esq.; the mansion stands in very pictur- Board School (mixed), built in r876, at a cost of £86o, for

esque grounds and in the park is a pillar, erected in r856, to 90 children; average attendance, 65; Miss J. Clarke, mist

Westleigh. Hookway Samuel, farmer, Bradavin Wills MaryJane(Mrs.),poultry&butter

Christie .Augustus Langham,Tapeley pk Hm::table J ames, shoe maker dealer
Hockridge George, Hill Side cottage J Laramey James ~· farmer, Trayhill
Eastlei.gh.

Hume Lieut.-Col. Waiter Fras. Torville Barton &. Eastleigh .
Mountjoy Mrs. Uzella house Lee Fredenc Ed":ard, tailor Balsdon James, Eastleigh villa

Torr Edward Ralph Berry, Westleigh ho Molland. Jobn, hmd to A. L. Christie LarameyJas.Balsdon,frmr.Low.Barton

White Rev. John Benny B. A. Vicarage esq. Coombe farm . Lee Edward, tailor
Muxworthy George, New mn Lee Frederick,blacksmith &shopkeeper

COMMERCIAL. Oliver Brothers, blacksmiths Wedlake William,farmer,HigherBarton

Barrett Joshua, hind to Percy Douglas Rodd Thomas, butcher Southcott.

Collier esq Trick Samuel, carpenter

Cann John, painter Trick Wm.carpentertoA.L.Christieesq Lynch Sidney, Southcott cobtage

Dyer William, boot maker Tucker Richard, farmer, Weech Barton Balsdon Richard, farmer

HolmanRd.farmr.&machinist,Ashridge WillsEliza&Louisa(.Misses),shopkeepers Godsland Williarri, miller (water)

WESTON PEVEREL (or PENNYCROss) is a small Beaconfield, is a very large mansion in the Classic style, with

chapelry, on the road from Devonport to Tavistock, 2! grounds occupying r6 acres in extent,beantifullyornamented
miles north from Plymouth, in St. Andrew's (Plymouth) w1th trees and groves and well laid out in gardens, walks, ten•
parish, Western division of the county, Roborough hundred nis lawns and an extensive cricket field: the college, being
and petty sessional division, Plympton St. Mary union, situated on an eminence, commands magnificent views of the
county court distnct of East Stonehouse, rural deanery of Sound and harbour, Mount Edgcumbe Park and the hilly
Three Towns, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. country of South Devon, with Dartmoor in the distance :
The church of St. Pancras, corrupted into "Pennycross," a these advantages, with the warm and genial climate, tern-
chapel attached to St. Andrew's, Plymouth, is a building of pe1ed by healthy sea breezes, combine to render it a very
stone, in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel, nave, desirable resort for students; rector, Very Rev. Eugene
aisles, north and south porches, vestry and a belfry contain· Alexander Durand B.A., B. se. St. Joseph's House of the
ing one bell, recast in r821 and inscribed "VENITE ADOREMUS Little Sisters of the Poor, erected in r885, is a fine building
DOIIJJNU:M :" in the church are monuments to the family of of stone in a Continental style, and contains So aged men
the Rev. John Hall Parlby M..&.., J.P. of Manadon, and to the and women. Manadon, the seat of the Rev. John Hall

Collins and Trelawnyfamilies: the church, enlarged in r82o, Parlby :M. A., J.P. is a mansion of stone, dating from 1567,
was restored in r87o, at a cost of£ r,6oo, and has 250 sittings. standing in extensive and well-wooded grounds. Ham is
The register of baptisms dates from the year r634; marriages, the property of the Rev. J. Trelawny Ross D. D. vicar of

r636; burials, 1635· The living is a chapelry, annexed to Paignton ; it was rebuilt in 1639 by Robert Trelawny esq.

the vicarage of St. Andrew's, Plymouth, joint net yearly :M,P. for Plymouth, and has grounds of 109 acres in extent;

value £5oo, with residence, in the gift of the Church Patron• it is occupied by Miss Trelawny Collins. Burleigh, the
age Society, and held since 1870 by the Ven. Charles Thomas property of Gage John Hodge esq. J.P. stands in grounds of
Wilkinson D. D. of Trinity College, Dublin, archdeacon of 8 acres, and is occupi~ by Mrs. Hawker: Belair, the seat of
Totnes, rural dean of the Three Towns, prebendary of Miss Elphinstooe Holloway, was formerly the seat of Captain
Exeter and surrogate, who resides at Plymouth i the Rev. Thomas Elpbinstone R.N.: Torr Grove is the. residence of
Melville Russell Moore BA. of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is Roh€rt Bayly esq. J.P.: Highbury is the residence of Rear-
curate in charge. There are charities to the amount of £4 Admiral Jo~ph Edward Maitland Wilson J.P.; Pounds,

yearly value. The Catholic College of Mary Immaculate, of Chapell William Hodge esq. J.P. and Welby, of Major·

DIRECTOR¥.] DEVOKSIIIRE. WE.S1WA.RD HO. 667

General Robert Barton R.E., J'.P. The Rev. John Hall! POST & M. 0. 0. &; S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office,

Parlby M.A. who is lord of t.he manor, Chapell William I Wesley avenue.-Thomas Hancock, sub-postmaster.

Hodge esq. J.P. and Gage John Hodge esq. J.P. are the Letters arrive through Plymouth & Devonport at 8 a.m.

• principal landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, slate. I2.I5, 3.3o, 5.50 & 8.45 p.m. Box cleared at 9·5 a. m .

The chief crops are wheat, barley and pasture. The area I2.30, 6.5 & II.35 p.m. & suudays 6.5 & II.35 p.m.

is 1,2o8 acres of land; rateable value,£8,153; the population The nearest telegraph office is Mutley Plain, Plymouth

in 1891 was 8n. WALL LETTER Box cleared at 5·45 p.m

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Moody John Robert, 9 Elim terrace Edwards Mary Jane (Mrs.),shopkeeper,

[Marked thu8: receive their letters through O'Neill Rev.Edward,Beacoufield college I Wesley terrace

Devonport, remainder through Plymouth.] Parlby Rev.JohnHall M.A.,..J.P.Manadou Hancock Thomas, shopkeeper & post

AureilleRev.Edward,Beaconfield college Peard Mrs. Mount house office, I Wesley avenue

Barlow Capt. N .B. Hillsdon Quance Robert, Oaklands Hodge William D. M.R.C. v.s. veterinary

BartonMaj.-Gen.Rbt.R.E.,J.P.Welbyho Rooker Misses, Mount view surgeon, Redlands

Bayly Robert J.P. 'forr grove Southerdon John, Beaconfield college tHorswell Richard, farmer, Burraton

Bradshaw Mrs. Rowden tStroud Peter, Hurrington Martin Nicho!as,inspcctor of nuisances,

BufferneRev.Vincent A.Beaconfield coil Tracy Rev. Robert, Beaconfield college Plympton St. Mary. rural sanitary

tCollins Miss Trelawny, Ham Tubbs Charles Foulter, Beachfield authority & registrar of marriages~

Cooper Fleet-Surgeon Astley R.N. l\Iut- !Tuttle Robert Shepherd, Boxhill Plympton St. Mary union & deputy

ley Park house Wilson Rear-Admiral Joseph Edward registrar of births & deaths, Yealmp-

duMouchelRev.A.S.Beaconfield college Maitland J.P. Highbury ton sub-district, 3 Elim terrace

Durand Very Rev. Eugene Alexander COMMERCIAL. Moody Jn. Rt.ordnance srvyr.gElim ter

B.A., B.sc. Beaconfield college Burch William, dairy farmer, Venn !Petherick Benjamin Barkwill, miller

Hawker Mrs. Burleigh Catholic College of Mary Immaculate (steam) & carpenter, Weston mill

Hodge Chapell William J".P. Pounds [Very Rev.EugeneAlexander Durand Plymouth Sanitary Steam Laundry Co,

Hodge William, Redlands B.A., l!.sc. rector], Beaconfield Lim.(FleetwoodJosephRowell,mngr)

Holloway Miss Elphinstone, Belair !Courtice Beujamin, farmer St. Joseph's House of the Little Sisters

HoskynsMajorChandos R.E.Beauchamp Cowley Sophia (Mrs.), grocer, I Coppa- of the Poor

Hudson Miss, Cross Park house thorne terrace tTozer James Thos.S.Camel's Head P.B

Hurrell Henry, Peverel Park villa Edwards Blanche (Miss), dress maker, Vincent Samuel, Victoria brewery

James John Bright, Holland house I Wesley terrace Watts Charles, farmer

WES'I'WARD HO ! a charming watering place, in the any in England, being mild but bracing, and the winter is

parish of Northam, has been so called from the Rev. Charles on a par With that of the Riviera. The church of the Holy
Kingsley's novel of that name, the scene of which is chiefly Trinity, erected in 1870 as a chapel of ease to Northam, is

laid in this vicinity : it is situated on theNortham Burrows, an edifice of stone, in the Early English style, consisting of

an extensive common of about I,ooo acres, stretching west- chancel with aisles, nave, aisles, south porch and a western

ward towards the shore of Bideford bay, on the coast of the turret containing 2 bells : there are 300 sittings : divine
bay between Baggy and Hartland points, into which flow service is conducted by the clergy of Northam. llere is a.
the rivers Taw and Torridge, 2~ miles north-west from coast guard station. The Union club has reading and

Bideford, 222! from London by the London and South other rooms, and there is a Golf club, of which H.R.H. the
Western railway, via Bideford, and 242i by the Great P~inceof Wales is patron. The United Services (Proprietary)
Western railway, and is in the North Western division of College was established in 1874, in order to supply to sons

the county and petty sessional division of Bideford. The of officers in the two services a public school education of

inhabitants of Northam have from time immemorial had a the highest class at a low cost: the school is conducted on
right of pasturage on this large common, and it is greatly to the model of the great public ~>chools and in conformity with
be regretted that no sufficient measures are taken to restrain the principles of the Church of England : the course of in-

the encroachments of the tidal waters, which much diminish struction is such as to qualify for the Universities, profes-
both its value and extent. Zoophytes of all kinds are to be sions and mercantile and general pursuits, but great atten-

found in abundance among the rocks, and the locality tion is paid to the preparation of pupils for the civil, naval

generally is rich in objects of interest to the antiquarian and military examinations: boys are admitted from 10 to 14

and geologist; a singular and very beautiful pebble ridge years of age and remain until 18 : there is a junior school,
bounds a wide beach of sand on the one side and the exten- about a quarter of a mile from Westward Ho! for boys
sive common on the other. There is a large and well- between 7 and 12, preparing them for the college.
appointed hotel, with good facilities for golf playing, besides

many excellent lodging houses, bathing establishments, with PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

spacious swimming.baths, and good private residences; its William J. Keyte, sub-postmaster. Letters through

picturesque situation and many natural beauties combine to Bideford received at 7·45 a.m. 12.40 noon & 5 p.m. ;

make this one of the most attractive and popular of English dispatched at 9.20 a. m. & I & 6 p.m

watering places. The climate is equal, if not superior, to Chief of Coast Guard, James Dawe.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. MacDougall Col. John, Nelson house Ellis Fanny (Mrs.), apartments, Pebble

Anderson J. C. P. Golfstone Mascall Mrs. Link house Ridge villas

Bassett Rev. Henry Howard Tilney Nind Lieut.-Col. Frederick W. (late Ellis Henry, apartments

[curate], Codrington villas R.A.), United Services college Galliford Frederick William, baker,

Berwick Robert S. Royal hotel Nixon Brinsley de Courcy, Seafield confectioner,apartmnts.&boarding ho

Bettington Mrs. St. Ethelbe1·t's Paget-Moffatt Rev. John Adamson Gas Works (John Harris, manager)

Boyd Archibald Archibald, Belle vue, Stanley M.A. Buckleigh Hutchings Henry Lee, house agent k

Buckleigh Pearse Colonel Charles J. Manor ville coal merchant

Brebner Miss, Clarence villa Price Cormell M.A., B.C.L. United Ser- Kemp Christopher, Pebble Ridge inn

Cabell Mrs. Buckleigh vices college Keyte Sergeant-Major William J. sta-

Carner Capt. Wm. Edward, Alt.nachree Rickman Samuel, Buckleigh lodge tioner,IPost office, 2 Nelson terrace

Close Major-General William Frederick Schneider Arthur Gordon, Brooklyn Loughlin John, apartments

R.A. Merley Scott Mrs. Buckleigh cottage Mitehell Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments,

Cooke Fras. Thos. Southmoor,Buckleigh Sparling Mrs. Avondale Fosketh house

Cnmine Mrs. Westbourne villas Tatam Mrs. Fernlea, Buckleigh Mounce Richard~ apartments, joiner &

Disney Mrs. Bucideigh Watson George, Wentworth insurance agent, Elm villa

Dunbar Mrs. 1 Hightield, Buckleigh Weir Robert, 4 Fosketh terrace Murray Arthur, licensed to let post

Dnnsford William E. Buckleigh house Wilkins Miss, Hillside cottage horses, I Kingsley terrace

Eustace Rev. John Mellabone M.A. 2 Willes Rev. George M.A. r Edgehill, Murray Mary (Mrs.), apartments,

Edgehill, Buckleigh Buckleigh Rowena house

Evans Herbt.Arth.lii.A. Codrmgton vils Winterscale Lieut.-Col. Johrr F. Hill- Philp Mary (Miss), aparts. Fosketh ter

Gosset Mrs. The Priory cliff, Buckleigh · Pleydell Maria (Miss), apartments, 1

Gubbins Lieut.-Col. Jn.Egerton,Roslyn Nelson terrace

Hamilton Mrs. 2 Highfield, Huckleigh COMMERCIAL. Prior Richard, builder, Southern le!l

Henderson J. Westbourne terrace Ackland Mary (Mrs.), apartments, !'rouse Thomas, apartments, Rouse gill

Hodgson Mrs. Templenoe The Villa Pursey Elizabeth (Mrs.), apartments.

Homan Dep. Surg.-General Samuel Barter William, apartments Fosketh terrace

Adamson, Rosebank, Buekleigh Chapple James A.farmer & apartments, Rouse & Gooding, surgeons

Hopkins Major, Dormie house Underborough Rowe Ann (Mrs.), apartments, Tor-
Dawe James, chief officer~ coast guard ridge house
Horton Miss, The Grove

Kelsall Captain Theophilus M. ll.N. station, Westbourne terrace Royal Hotel (family, tourist & private)

Youngaton Dymond, Son & Blackmore,auctioneers, &; posting house ; spacious billiard

Lill:e J. G. Asha &c.; & at Bideford saloon (Robert S. Berwick, propr)

668 W.ESTWARD HO. DEVONSHIRE. (KELLY'S

Royal North Devon Golf Club (Lieut.- College, formerly scholar &. exhibi- violin & choir master ; Rouse &
Col. J. F. Winterscale, hon. sec. & Gooding, medical officers; Sergeant-
hon. treasurer) tioner of Brasenose College, Oxford t Major Schofield, fencing, drill & gym-
Rev. G. WiJlesM.A. chaplain; M. H. nastics; Sergeant-Major Cowell,
Sanitary Laundry (Mrs.Ann Westaway, steward; Lieut-Col. F. W. Nind
manageress) Pugh M.A. H. A. Evans .M.A. G. (retired R.A.) secretary)
W. Watson M.A. Jean H. Mamer Way Richard, carpenter & shopkeeper
Union Club (Lt.-Col. J. F. Winter- B.-es-L. Rev. J. M. Eustace M.A. Westaway Thomas, farmer, Ventown
scale, hon. sec. & hon. treasurer) Rev. J. A. S,. Paget-Moffatt M.A. W. White Frank C. baker & shopkeeper
Gilchrist Wilson M.A. assistant mas-
United Services Proprietary College ters; S. Thomas, art master; 'f. WreyJane(Mrs. ),aparts.5 & 6Nelson ter

(head master, Cormell Price M.A., Backhouse, piano ; J. B. Bernard,
B.C..L., F.R.Hist.s. for II years head

master of the Modern side,Haileybury

WHIMPLE is a village and parish with a station on the yearly value. A fair is held on the Monday before Michael-

main line of the South Western railway, I63 miles from mas day. Strete Raleigh is the residence of Henry Machu

London, I mile off the high road from Honiton to Exeter, Imbert·Terry esq. J.P., F.R.S.L. Sir John Henry Kennaway
~!miles west-south-west from the former, 8~ east-north- bart. R. Davy esq. John Smith esq. William Smith esq.
east from the latter and 4 north-west from Ottery St. Mary, John Venn esq. William Brooke, General Hughes, H. M.
in the Eastern division of the county, Clyston hundred, Imbert-Terry esq. J.P., F.R.S.L. and Mrs. G. Philpot.ts are
Ottery petty sessional division, St. Thomas' union, county the chief landowners. The soil is stiff loam ; the subsoil is
court district of Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare and clay. The chief crops are wheat. The acreage is 3,019;
archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. rateable value, £6,547; the population in 1891 was 686.
Mary, enlarged and rebuilt, with the exception ofthetower, STRETE RALEIGH, I mile north-east, is a tithing in this

in 1845, is a building of stone, in the Perpendicular style, parish.
aud consists of chancel, nave of five bays, aisles, south porch Sexton, John Dunn.
and an embattled western tower with four pinnacles and PosT & M. 0. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
containing 6 bells: there are some stained windows: the Samuel Smith, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from

reredos, erected in March, 1883, from dPsigns by Mr. Robert Exeter at I.25 p.m. & 5.40 a. m. ; dispatched at I2.5o &
Medley Fulford, architect, is a work in the Early Perpendi- 7· r5 p.m.; sundays, 7.15 p.m. Telegraph office at the
cular style, the re-table being of Devonshire marble and the Railway station
upper portion of Caen stone, adorned with statuettes of Our WALL LETTER BoxEs.-Hand-and-Pen, cleared at 6.I5 a. m.
Lord and adoring angels : the church has 207 fres sitting-s. &: 6. 30 p.m. week days only : Church H1ll, cleared at 5·45

The register dates from the year I653· The living is a p.m
rectory, average tithe rent-charge £253, gross yearly value National School (mixed), erected in 1848 & enlarged in
£358, including 67 acres of glebe, with residence, in the I871, at a cm•t of £240, for II8 children; average attend-
gift of and held since I843 by the Rev. Lloyd Sanders M.A. ance, 105; Mrs. Beatrice Lang, mistress ; Miss Flora
of Christ Church, Oxford, and surrogate. There is a Harris, infants' mistress

Congregational chapel. The charities are of about £s Railway Station, Edward Hill, station master

{Marked thus t letters received through Drew Elizh. (Mrs.), frmr.HighYelland Potbury Thomas, farmer, The Farm

Ottery St. Mary.] Drew Thomas, dairyman, Hill's farm tPotter John, cowkeeper, West Hill

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Dyer Edwin, farmer, Rull Pratt Eliz<~.beth (Mrs.), dress maker

Ayshford ThomasBlake, Victoria cottage Everleigh Thos. & Sons,boot &shoe ma Pratt George, baker & shopkeeper

tCooke 'rhomas Draper, West hill Glanville Charles, farmer, Hotel farm Pratt Thomas, farmer, Knowle

Critchett Henry, Slewton house Gloyn John, butcher Prowse Harry, farmer, Larkbeare

Uould Henry William, The Cypresses Godfrey Hiram George, tailor Quaintance Joseph Down, beer retailer

Hughes Misses, Woodhayes Godfrey John, boot & shoe maker Read William Galen Ebdon, baker &.

Im bert-Terry Henry Machu J.P., Granger William John, builder, grocer,noted house for finger biscuits,

F .R.::;. L. Strete Raleigh assistant overseer,assessor &collector agent for the Tower Tea Co. & for the

l'ratt William John, West Hill of taxes "Daily Gazette & Western Morning

Sanders Rev. Lloyd M.A. Rectory Kenwood Charles, carpenter & shopkpr News" & Star Life Assurance

Smith William. Whimple house Kenwood Richard, blacksmith Reading Room

Venn John, Holloway Kenwood Wm. blacksmith& carpenter, RichardsMaryAnn(Mrs.),farmr,Cobdon

•rrump John, Fordton house , Hand-&-Pen Rogers Frederick, farmer, Yelland

Venn Misses, Sandford Lockyer Jn.horse breaker, Hand-&-Pen Sanders Ellinor (Mrs.), farmer, Street

Wright John Madge Thomas Aeland, farmer, Smith Sl. stationer & coal mer.Post office

COMMERCIAL. Strete Raleigh SnowWm.butcher & farmer, Woodhayes

Ayers Thomas, dairyman, Northcott Manley Nicholas, farmer, Fordon Sowdon James, farmer, Perriton

neer John Tucker, New inu Miller & Lilley,coal mers. Railway statu Stark Joseph, chimney sweeper &stone

Bishop John, dairyman, Rull Newbery Peregrine John Hall, dairy mason, Hand-&-Pen

Bole Frank, shopkeeper & tailor factory Trickey Jas.Hitt,farmer,EastStrete frm

Erooke Elijah, farmer, Whimple wood tPalfrey Wm. pen cowkeeper, West hill Turle 'rhomas, fat·mer, Middle Cobdon

Brooke William, farmer, Slewton PattenJohn,timber mer.&frmr.Slewton Turle William, farmer, Lower Cobdon

nroom James, carpenter & shopkeeper Phelps James, farmer Venn John, farmer, Holloway

Burrow James, farmer, Pithayes Pine Henry, dairyman, Strete Raleigh Withers Edwin, farmer, Woodhayes

WHITCHURCH is a parish and village on the high Sortridge Tin Mine is the only one now worked. Walred•

road from Plymouth to Tavistock, 2 miles south-east from don, an ancient residence, the seat of Thomas Fisher M. D.
Tavistock, where the nearest railway station is, and 12 is It miles south-west. Grenofen, a handsome modern resi-
north from Plymouth, in the Western division of the county, dence, the seat of William Henry Chichester esq. J.P. is 1!
Roborough hundred, Tavistock petty sessional division, miles south-south-east. Hol well, the seat of William Pryce
union and county court district, rural deanery of Tavistock, Michell esq. D.L., J.P. is an ancient residence, pleasantly
archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exetel'. Sortridge, situated in well-wooded grounds of about 6o acres, half a
formerly a detached part of Petertavy, was by order of 25th mile north-east. Merevale belongs to Rt. Hon. Sir Massey

March, 1884, added to this parish. The church of St. Lopes bart. J.P. of Maristow, Roborough, and Moor Town
Andrew is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, to William Ed ward George esq. of Downside, 8toke Bishop,
consi:;tingof chancel, nave, north aisle, south transept, south Bristol. Thomas Bulteel esq. J.P. of Radford, who is lord
porch and an embattled western tower, with crocketed pin- of the manor, the Earl of Devon, the Duke of Bedford,

nacles, containing 6 bells ; in the chancel is a curious old William Pryce Michell esq. D.L., J.P. William Henry Chi·
monument, dated 1617, to the Moringe family, who were chester esq. J.P. Rev. William Henry Wyer Honey M.A.,

formerly sec1.ted at Moortown in this parish: there is also a LL.M. rector of Raithby-cum-Hallington, Lincs. and Herbert
very fine marble tomb to the Rev Mr. Pengelly, a former Morris Spencer esq. of Bradford, Yorks, are the principal
fr"icar of this parish, d. 1722 : in the chancel are two me- landowners. The soil is generally light; the subsoil, various.
morial windows to the late vicar, placed there by his family, The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and pasture. The

and in the north aisle one to the wife and daughter of W. P. area is 5,317 acres, of which about 2,523 acres are uninclosed,
Michell esq. J.P. of Holwell, erected by him in I883: there on the borders of Dartmoor; rateable value, £6,28o; the

are piscinre in the chancel and transept: the church was population in 1891 was I,I44·
restored in I878, and has 250 sittings. The regtster dates Parish Clerk, George H. l''inzel esq.

from the year 1560. The living is a vicarage, average in- PosT OFFICE.-Miss Amelia Willco~k, sub-postmistress.

.come from tithe rent-charge £I58, with residence and So Letters arrive througl::t Tavistock at 6.50 a.m. & 4.20
acres of glebe, in the gift of the.H.ev. Samuel William Feather- p.m.; dispatched, 7.Io a. m. & 5.25 p.m. ; no delivery or
stone B.A. of Durham, who has held the living since I883. dispatch on sundays. Tavistock is the nearest money

I here are Bible Christian meeting houses in the village. In order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here.

the parish are several tin, copper and lead mines, but the but not paid

DIRECfORY.] DEVONSHIRE. WIDECOMBE-I~-THE-MOOR. 669

A School Board of 5 members was formed Jan. 9, r874: J. orum & Sampford Spiney were made contributory dis-

D. Johnstone, Tavistock, clerk to the board; W. J. Mason, tricts, each sending 2 members

Tavistock, attendance officer Board School (mixed), built in I877, for 120 children; avet-

In July, I885, by an Order in Council, Buckland Monach- age attendance, 78; Richard Sbarpe, master

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Wonnacott Thomas, Fern bank Lark Edwin, farmer, Lower Quarry frm

Argall Henry K. The Priory Mashford William, Whitchurch inn

Babbage Gilbert, Ashleigh villa COMMERCIAL. Moxon Lucy (Miss), apartments, 1\lea-

Bennett Mrs. Lang"stone Abell Richard, farmer, Longford dow view, Middle moor

Brookes Thomas, Hingston VIew Babbage John, farmer, Asbleigh Mudge George, farmer, Collaton

Chichester Wm. Henry .J.P. Grenofen Bailey William John, miller (water) & Mudge Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Shuld

Chilcott Edward, Chollacott farmer, Brook mill Oxenham John, farmer, Dinnethorn

Clinton-Parry Mrs. I Chollacott villas Beer William, farmer, Whitchurchfarm Pearce A. M. (Mrs.), dress maker, 4-

Coppin Edmund, Holly bank Berriball Thomas Hughes, farmer, Broad Park terrace

Cranch Thomas Henry, 2 Chollacott vis Lower Middle Tor Peek Jonathan, farmer. Quarry

Di<"kerson Frederick Poulton, Down side Bolt J n. shopkpr.&beer retailer, Grenofen Peng"elly Geo. farmer, Pennycomequick

Doble Henry Tregallas, 'I'revaunance Carpenter Jane Elizabeth (Miss), ladies' Perry John, farmer, Moor town

Durham Charles, 2 Broad Park villas boarding & day school, Anderton cot Pursey George, Dartmoor inn, Merri-

Featherstone Rev. Sl.Wm.B.A.Vicarage Chubb George, farmer, Middle moor vale bridge

Finzel George H. Moor town Cocks Mary Jane (Mrs.), apartments, ReddicliffeJas.farmer,LittleDinnethom

Fisher Thomas M.D. Walreddon manor Fern lea, Middle moor Seccombe Charles William, mining en-

Gaud Henry Honey, Tavy view Creber John Henry, farmer, Birchey gineer, 2 Church Park villas

German John Bird, r Broad Park ter Creber Maria (Mrs.), grocer SkinnerRd.Glanville,frmr.Middle moor

Gill John Maunder, Edgemoor cottage Dawe John, farmer, Hacklake Sleeman Charles, carpenter

Gould Charles, Alma cottage Doidge Agnes (Mrs.), farmer, Sortridge Smale John, blacksmith, Moor shop

Hannaford Wm.Jarvis, I BroadPark viis Doidge John, farmer, LowerPennington Smith Edwin, frmr. Higher Walreddon

HughesRobert HarryM.A., M.B.cantab. Evans Richard, shoe maker Soper William, farmer, Ash farm

Down house Fuge John, farmer, Heckwood /Spry Josepb, farmer, Walreddon

Jephson Lorenzo George, Casey town Gaud John Honey, private school, 4 Toop Henry, mason

Michell William Pryce D.L., J.P. Holwell Fern Hill villas Toye Robert, apartments, Hunson T"illa

Nankill John, I Broad Park villas Giles William, farmer, Merrivale Tozer John W. carter & forage dealer

Nute Mrs. 2 Fern villas Gill John Ball, agricultural implement TozerMargt.(Mrs.),rarmr.Low.Longfrd

Pearce James Sidney, 4 Broad Park ter maker & blacksmith Trefusis Alfred,farmer,Longford quarry

Rogers George Porter, Langstone Glanville Hy. Crimes, farmer, Wilsetton Warran Simeon, builder,BroadPark ter

Sims Mrs. Hingston view Hannaford John, farmer, Shilliparks Willcock1Jn. Williams,farmer, Anderton

Skewis William Bawden, Khartoum ho Hearn John Henry, farmer, Oakley Willcock Mellon (Miss), shopkeeper

Sleeman Mrs. Courtney cottage Holmes John, farmer & assist. overseer Winsor Thomas,apartments,Royalist ho

Squire William, I Fern villas for Petertavy parish, Lower Collaton Witheridge James, farmer & assistant

Stacey Daniel, Tavy villa Jope John, farmer, Helland overseer, Lower Grenofen

Tonkin Mrs. 3 Broad Park villas Kelly Arthur, farmer, Shortland farm, WitheridgeSamuel, farmer, Fullamoor

Witheridge Richard, Church Park v i Middle moor

WHITESTONE is a parish and scattered village on Sillifant esq. J.P. of Coombe, Coplestone, Rev. H. M. Bur-

the main road from Exeter to Launceston, 3! miles north- dett M. A. rector of North Molton, Mrs. Yarde, and Thomas
west from Exeter and 6 south-east from Crediton, in the Maitland Snow esq. of Cleve House, Exwick, are the chief
North Eastern division of the county, Wonford hundred landowners. The soil is clayey; the subsoil, schistous. The
and petty sessional division, union of St. Thomas', county chief crops are wheat and oats. The acreage is 4,077; rate-
court district of Exeter, rural deanery of Kenn and archdea- able value, £4,108 ss. ; the population in I891 was 494·
conry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Catharine, By a Local Government Order, which came into operation
standing on an eminen<"e7oo feet above the level of the river March 25, I884, a detached part of St. Thomas's parish,
Exe, is an ancient building of stone, in the Gothic style, con- known as Oldridge (which see), was amalgamated with this
sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an em- parish, except for ecclesiastical purposes and the distribution
battled western tower containing 6 bells, dating from 1793 of charities.
to 1886, in which year they were re-hung: the church was Sexton, Mark Skinner.
renovated and re-seated in r887, at a cost of about £5oo, and Parish Clerk, Oldridge, William Millman.
has 170 sittings. The register dates from the year I 594· The Rate Collector,Chas. Cheesworth, xo Sidney rd. St.Thomas
living is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £469, net yearly PosT 0FFICE.-Miss Ellen Lake, sub-postmistress. Letters
value [,427, including 78 acres of glebe, with residence, in the arrive from Exeter at 8 a. m.; sundays, 7·45 a. m.; dis-
gift of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and held since I883 patched at 5.25 p.m. ; sundays, 7·45 a.m. St. Thomas,
by the Rev. John Batteridge Pearson n.n. of that college. Exeter, is the nearest money order & telegraph office.
Here is a Wesleyan chapel. There are charities, amounting Postal orders are issued here, but not paid

to about £2I, distributed yearly. The freeholders are lords WALL LETTER Box, Nadder water, cleared at 5·55 p.m. ;

of the manor. Antony Gibbs esq. J.P. of Tyntesfield, sundays, 9.30 a.m
Wraxall, Somerset, Joseph Roberts esq. Francis Abbott esq. Endowed School (mixed), built in 1876, for go children;
Sir John Shelley B.A., .T.P. of Shobrooke, Arthur Onslow average attendance, 6o

Baker Capt. Joseph, Hurston house Chudleigh James, shopkeeper Netherway Robert, farmer, Pitt
Dadd Thomas, farmer, Cleave, Oldridge Pester John, boot maker, Nadder water
Browne Edwin Saunders, Nadder water Drake John, farmer, Oldridge Barton Pike Frederick, farmer, Nadder park
Eakers Tom, farmer, Style's Barton PikeGeorge,wheelwright,Nadderwater
Pearson Rev. John Batteridge D. D. [rec- Halse Hazael, farmer, Woodlands Roberts Absalom, farmer, Pound
Hawkins George, farmer, Balls Roberts Joseph, farmer, East Rowhorn
tor], The Rectory Hawkins John, farmer, Heath Barton Sanders John, farm bailiff to Gen. Rt.

Pearson Charles M.A. Rectory & Ball Oaks Hon.Sir Redvers Buller x.c.B.Copper-
Hawkins Sl.farmer,Haynes & West twn walls, Oldridge
Roberts Joseph, East Rowhorn Holman Sarah (Mrs.), farmr. Tree lake Seward George, farmer, Lower Hare
Horwill William, farmer, East Kent Seward Samuel, carpenter
COMMERCIAL. Kerswill Samuel, carpenter,Heath cross Skinner William, carpenter, Barton cot
LakeArabella(Miss),frmr.Baddock farm Taverner James, carpenter
Bastin Josepb, farmer Lake James, baker & grocer Taylor James & G-eorge, farmers, Ford
Lendon Samuel, farmer, Poole Webber George, farmer, Trillow
Bastin Sophia(Mrs. ),Travellers'Rest inn LewisJohn,carpenter&farmer,Deerslake Wellington Arthur, blacksmith
Littlejohn Frank, carpenter White Charles, farmer, Hurston & Way
Baxter Willmington, farmer, Nadder

Blanchford William, farmer

Brewer Samuel, farmer, Bawlish farm

Cheriton Thomas, farmer & landowner,

Woodhay, Oldridge •

Cheriton William Henry, farmer, Farn

Coldridge John Waiter, Royal Oak P.H.

Nadder water

WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR is a parish and vil- The church of St. Pancras is an ancient cruciform building
of granite in the Perpendicular style, consisting of chancel.
lage, separated on the west and south from Dartmoor and nave of six bays, aisles, transepts, south porch and a magni-
the parish of Holne by the river Dart, tributari3s of which
intersect the parish, and is 5~ miles north-west from Ash- ficent embattled western tower, 120 feet in height, sur-
burton terminal station of a branch of the Great Western mounted by four pinnacles terminated by crosses ; it contains
railway, 12 north=west from Newton Abbot, 8 south-west 6 bells, three of which are dated 1632: in the chancel are
from Moreton Hampstead, in the Mid division of tbe county, the remains of a square-headed sedile, and in the south

Haytor hundred, Teignbridge petty sessional division, New· trans ·pt a pis<"ina: on the north side of the chancel is a

ton .Abbot union and county court district, rural deanery of mural tablet dated 1642, to Mary, wife of John Elford, of

Moreton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. Shcepstor: the church was struck by lightning during didne

6':'0 WIDECOMBE-lN-TBE-MOOR. DEVONSHIRE. [ KELLY'S

service, October 21, 1638, four persons being killed and order & telegraph office. Postal orders are issued here,

62 injured, some of whom were hurt by the falling of but not paid

one of the pinnacles of the tower; in the north aisle is a A School Bvard of 7 members was formed April g, 1875;

tablet bearing some verses commemorative of the event : John Easterbrook is clerk to the board &attendance officer

there is a very massive stone pulpit and two stained windows, Board School (mixed), to hold go children; average attend-
one at the east end and the other in the north aisle : there
ance, 28 ; Miss Harriet ~tanley, mistress
are 200 sittings. At the principal entrance to the church-
yard is a lych gate. The registers of baptisms date from shiaaLmsteliecuatslsdopfeaJrnios,rhd3,a!nfom, rLimloeewsdesorMuTatohrwcfhrno,4mP, oWrn8di6ds4we,cooarmnthdbye,,iPniocsuluandndesesgcacttlheee-,
1570; burtals, rs6o; marriages, 1 573· The living is a

vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £213, net yearly value Sherwell and Dartmeet. The church of St. John the Baptist,

£193, with residence and about 6o acres of glebe, in the gift estryelcet,edcoinnsirs8ti6n3g,- is a building of stone in the Perpendicular
of the Dean and Chapter of Exeter, and held since r86g by of chancel, nave, south porch and a tower,

the Rev. John Williams B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. on the south side of the chancel, containing a clock and one

There is a Calvimstic chapel in Watergate and a Wesleyan bell: the east and west windows are memorials to the late
chapel at Dunstone. The church house and charity land MvTihcresa.rraeLggaeir,sptgeernrots,dsawtyehseoafrdrliyoemdvaitlnhuee1s£y7e92a5:r5,th18en6ree4t.
produce about £15 yearly, which is divided between the are x8o sittings.
church and the School Board. A fair is held on the second The living is a
Tuesday in September, yearly, for cattle, and the Dartmoor
£ 21s, including
sheep and ponies bought largely. South of the village of 24 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and
Chapter of Exeter, and held since 1879 by the Rev. Francis

Widecombe are the remains of a British village, and north- Gilbert White M.A. of Lincoln College, Oxford. Here is a

wards are two logan or rocking stones. Albert Brodrick Wesleyan chapel. 'l'homas Blackall esq. is the principal

esq. is lord of the manor. The chief landowners are W. J. landowner. The soil is light sandy; subsoil, granite. The

0. Tucker esq. John Flaming esq. Frederic Hand Firth esq. chief crops are cereals. The area is 5,ooo acres; the popu-

.J.P. and Thomas Blackall esq. The soil is light sandy; and latSioenxtioun,r8AgatrownasT3u7r8n.er.
the subsoil granite. The crops are cereals and roots of all

kinds. The area is ro,6r4 acres, about 1,4oo or 1,500 of
lwathViioEcnhNTiniOsNrc8,oghmralmwf oamnsil7lea4n4so.du;thra-eteaasbt,leDuvNaSluTeO,N£E.,s,hoaol4f ; the popu- PosT OFFICE, Poundsgate.-Mrs. Elizabeth Webber, sub-
mile south, postmistress. Letters through Ashburton R.S.O. arrive

at 8. IO a.m. ; dispatched at 3· IS p.m. Ashburton is the

PoNDSWORTHY, 2 miles south-by-west, LowER TowN, 3 nearest money order & telegraph office. Postal orders
miles south, PouNDSGATE, 3! miles south, and JORDAN, are issued here, but not paid

2 miles south-west, are hamlets. WAI.L LETTER Box at Pondsworthy cleared at 2.25 p.m.

Sexton, Richard Nosworthy. Lensden Board School (mixed), under the Widecombe-in-

PosT OFFICE. William Andrew Harvey, &ub-postmaster. the-Moor School Board, erected in r88o, for 100 children;

Letters through Ashburton R.S.O. received at q.so a.m.; average attendance, 53; Joshua Bancroft, master; Miss

dispatched at 3.30 p.m. Ashburton is the nearest money .Louisa Warren, mistress

Widecombe-in-the-Moor. Mann John, farmer, Chittleford Caunter John, carpenter, Pondsworthy

Blair Edward, Cator court · Mann Richard, farmer, GreatDunstone Chaffe John, jun. farmer, Uphill

Pickthall John M. Bagpark Norrish .A.lbert, farmer, Isaford Chaffe John, sen. farmer, Corndon
Smerdon Edwin, Bonhill villa Norrish Richard, farmer, Cator Cleave Thomas Henry~ carpenter

Williams Rev. John B.A. Vicarage Nosworthy John, farmer, Northway Cole George, miller (water), Jordan
Pike William, Old inn Easterbrook John, assistant overseer &

COMMERCIAL. Rowe William,farmer,Wooder&Coombe clerk to school board, Jordan cottage

Beard James, farm bailiff to Mr. E. SmerdonRobt.farmer,LowerNakworthy Fewins Simon,blacksmith,Pondsworthy

Cuming, Moreton Hampstead Tapper Joseph, farmer, Hedge Barton l<'ord Mary (Miss), farmer, Lower Aish

Cleave Richard, farmer, Venton TownsendDanl.shoe ma.HigherDunstne FrenchJohn Herbert,farmer,Spitchwick

CokerJonas,farm bailiffD.F H. Firth esq Tucker LewisOwen,farmer,Natsworthy Frenc.:h Richard, farmer, Roughbrook

DawWilliam,miller(water),Cockingford Warren Aaron, mason French William, farmer, Leightor

Follett Daniel, beer retailer Westington William, farmer, Ley Hamlyn Frank, farmer, Sherrels

French William, farmer,Low. Dunstone White Thomas, farmer, Hatchwell Hamlyn James, farmer, Lake

l<'rench William, farmer, Venton Wilcocks Peter, farmer, Blackaton HamlynParker,Tavistockinn,Poundsgt

Hamlyn Richard, farmer, Dockwell Willcocks Albert, farmer, Pitton Hannaford Aaron, farmer, Lower Tor

Hannaford Edwin, farmer, Bunhill Willcocks Joseph, farmer, Bonhill Hern John, shopkeeper, Pondsworthy

Hannaford Henry Herbert, farmer, Leusden. Hext John, farmer, Corndonford
Southcombe & Glebe farm Langdon James, farmer, Sollaford

Hannaford John Hy. farmer,Blackslade Blackall Thomas, Spitchwick Langdon John, farmer, Lower town

Hannaford Peter, farmer, Tunhill Caunter Mrs. Pondsworthy Mann John, farmer, Jordan

Hannaford Roger, farmer, Langworthy Hamlyn Mrs. Lower Aish Mann William, farmer, Pondsworthy

Hannaford Samuel, farmer, Broadaford Hornby Sir Edmund Grimani J.P. MichelmoreWm.Hy.shopkpr.Poundsgte

Harvey John, farmer, Lizwell Leusden house Squires William, farmer, Hannaford

Harvey Wm. Andrew, shopkpr.Post off Kendall Mrs. The Glen Townsend Abraham,mason,Poundsgate

Hern Samuel, farmer, Kingshead Stone John, Leusdeu lodge Townsend Harriet (Mrs.),private aparts

Hern Thomas, farmer, Lower Dunstone Torrens Lady, Hannaford Tuckett William, farmer, Sherrels

Holmes Josepb, farmer, Scobetor White Rev.Francis GilbertM.A. Vicarage Turner Nicholas, farmer,Low.Uppercot

Irish John, farmer, Grindon Woolcombe Rev. Arthur A. B. A. Warren Charles, shoe ma, Pondsworthy

.Irish WaJter, farmer, Lower Cator [curate], Pondsworthy Webber Elizabeth (Mrs.), baker, Post

l{ernick Richard, ironmonger, shoeing COMMERCIAL. office, Pouudsgate

& agricultural smith BeaTd William,shopkeepr. Ponds worthy WestingtonAenes(Mrs.) ,farmr.Sherrels

Langdon William, farmer, Bittleford Caunter Albert, farmer, Sweaton White Mary (Mrs.), farmer, Sherrels

WIDWORTHY is a parish, 3i miles east-by-south i (Widworthy), his wife, temp. Edwd. Ill.: in the south tran-

from Honiton, 4 north-west from Seaton Junction station sept is a handsome monument to James Marwood esq. d.

on the main line of the London and South Western railway 1767, by Bacon, and there ar£ various other monuments!

and 6 north-west from Axminster, in the Eastern division of the church has been reseated with open oak benches : all

the county, Colyton hundred, Honiton petty sessional divi- the windows are stained. The register is in good preserva-

sion, union and county court district, rural deanery of tion and complete from 1540. The lh•ing is a rectory,

Dunkeswell and Honiton, and archdeaconry and diocese of average tithe-rent charge £152, gross yearly value £190,
Exeter. One side of the village is in the parish of Offwell. includin~ 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the

Widworthy proper being composed of the hamlet of WIL- Rev. Alfred Marwood-Elton B. A.. and held since r862 by the

111INGTON, situated on the high road between Honiton and Rev. Marwood Tucker M.A. of Balliol College, Oxfm·d. The
Axminster. The church of St. Cuthbert is an ancientcruci- poor have a yearly rent-cha!'ge of 2os. left by Robert Mar-

- form building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of wood in 1738; £I qs. from Somasters' charity; £3 from

ehancel, nave, transepts and a western tower containing Tucker's charity, left in x8go; £4 from William Elton's
5 bells: over the west doorway in the tower is a carving of charity, left in 18g8, and £4 from Capt. H. Elton's charity.

figures within a panel, and three shields of arms, all too From this place the knightly family of Widworthy took
much ·defaced to be made out : in the north transept ia a their name; from one of these, Sir Hugh de Widworthy,

fine effigy of a knight in mixed armour, with bascinet and the manor was conveyed, through bis daughter Alice, to Sir

camail and hauberk of ringed mail, covered by a tunic, and William Prouz knt. and thence in 1344 to the Northcotes;

bearing on the left arm a shield with the arms of the Prouz subsequently it descended to the Wootton and Chichester

family, "crusily of cross-crosslets, 3 lions rampant ; " familieg, from whom it passed to the Marwoods. Wid-
the figure very probably represents Sir Hugh Prom:, of worthy Court, the seat of the Rev. Alfred Marwood-Elton

1Vidwurthy, son of Sir William Prouz, of Gidleigb, and Alice B. A. who is lord of the manor tmd practically sole lando...ner.

DIRECTORY.] DE\'ONSHIRE. WINKLE!GB'. 671

is an elegant mansion, 8tanding on an eminence; on the dairy land. The area is 1,437acres; rateable value, £1,843;
south and east fronts are terraces, r6o feet long. The man- the population in r89r was 153.
sion was built, and the park and extensive woods formed Sexton, Thomas Anning.
and planted about 1830 by the late Sir Edward ~larwood- PosT OFFICE, Wilmington.-Miss Sarah Ann Davey, sub-

Elton bart. who by descent and purchase had acquired all postmistress. Letters through Honiton arrive at 7·45 a.m.
the large estates in this, and adjoining parishes, owned for & dispatched at 5.15 p.m. Honiton is the nearest money
many generations by the Marwood family, and to which his order & telegraph office
grandmother and her three sisters succeeded as co-heiresses School (_mixed), erected 1893 by the Rev. Alfred Marwood-
6n the death of their brother, James Thomas Benedictus Elton B. A. for 120 children; average attendance, 35; &
Marwood. The soil is clay and mar!; the subsoil is marl emlowed with a share of land & a portion of Somasters' &

and gravel. The chief crops are grass, and there is excellent I 'fucker's charit.ies; Miss Sarah Ann Davey, mistress

Marwood-Elton Rev. Alfred B.A. Wid- Davey Sarah Ann (Miss), Post office, Sansom Waiter, gardener to the Rev.

worthy court Wilmington Alfred Marwood-Elton B.A

Tucker Rev. Marwood ll.t.A. Rectory Lane James, blacksmith, Wilmington Summers James, farmer, Barton

Broom James, farmer, Sutton & Rull Patch John, farmer, Halson Trott John, farmer, Stackers

East Devon Dairy Supply Co. Limited Read William Thos. farmer,Cookshayes

WILLAND is a small parish and village, about a mile College, Cambridge. Here is a Wesleyan chapel. Charities

south from Tif'erton junction station on the Bristol and Exeter to the amount of £18, are annually distributed. Frank
section of the main line of the Great Western railway, which Sellwood esq. of Pound square, Cullompton, is lord of the
is in this parish, 6 miles east from Tiverton, 14 north-east manor. CoL ~ir William Hood Walrond hart. M.P., D.L.,

from Exeter, 2J north from CuUompton, in the North J.P. James Parkhouse esq. and Mrs. Tanner are the principal

Eastern division of the county, hundred of Halberton, Cul- landowners. The soil is loamy; subsoil, gravelly. The
lompton petty sessional division, umon and county court chief crops are wheat and barley. The area is 989 acres;

district of Tiverton, rural deanery of East Tiverton and rateable value, £4,539; the population in 1891 was 352.
archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Sexton, John Bass.
Mary is an ancient building of stone, in the Perpendicular PosT & M.O.O., S.B. Annuity & ln8urance Office. John
style, consisting of chancel, nave, north aisie, transept, south Venn, sub-postmaster. Letters through Cullompton
porch and a western tower containing a clock and 3 bells: arrive at 7· 10 a. m.; dispatched at 7· ro a. m. & 1· 15 p.m.
there are several monuments ; and a handsome screen and Tiverton junction is the nearest telegraph office
pulpit: the church was thoroughly repaired in r863, and A School Board of 5 members was formed June 21, 1872;
has 200 sittings. The register dates from the year r67o. The John Jacobs, Culmstock, clerk & att.endance officer
living is a rectory, t-ithe rent-charge commuted at£103,aver- Board School (mixed), erected in r872 & enlarged r8g3, for
age £79• net yearly value /..-99, including 2 acres of glebe and no children; average attendance, 72; John William
residence, in the gift of the Sellwood trustees, and held since Walker, master; Mrs. Matilda Walker, mistress

1875 by the Rev. William Chester Copleston M. A. of Christ's Railway Station, Tiverton junction, Jn. Hunt, station master

Bale William, Wakefield cottage Bradbeer Charles, builder Manley William, dairyman, Gerston
Nex Henry, boot & shoe maker
CoplestonRev.Wm.ChesterM.A.Rectory Broom William, farmer, Dane hill Palmar George, farmer, Weir mill
Quant John Hedley, corn & coal mer-
Moss Herbert Campbell, Harpitt house Browning Thos. yeoman, East Burnrow
chant, Steam mills,Tivertonjunction
Norris-Jones Col. Henry, Townlands Chick Albert, carpenter Rabjohns Charles Wm. farmer,Coombe
Radford William, farmer, Quick farm
Parkhouse James, Verbeer Chick Henry, carpenter Rowe Thomas, dairyman, Jaycrofts
Rowe William, farmer & butcher
Phillott Robert, Kimberley I Colas Charles, farmer, Bagsters Salter James, farmer, Redgate
Skinner James, smith
Shere Mrs. Churley Coxwell SI. Railway htl. Tiverton junc Venn John, grocer & draper, Post office

Southey Samuel Hope, Parkfield HoltJohn,commercial traveller,Wakopa

Thorne Mrs. Coles farm Hookaway William, Halfway inn

COMMERCIAL. Jarrett Alfred William,·journalist

AnningJn.Paul,farmer, WesterBurnrew Lewis Jonathan, baker

Ash Richard, farmer, Uffculrn road Manley James, fishmonger

WINXLEIGH is a parish and ancient village on the Staple Green and a Congregational chapel at Hollacombe,

road from Crediton to Torriugton, 4 miles south-west from erected in r86g. The church lands have been applied to the

Eggesford station on the North Devon branch and 5 miles repair of the church from an early period, and comprise an

north-west. from North Tawton station on the Devon and undidded moiety of a farm, called East Chapple. Fairs are

Cornwall section of the London and South Western railway, held on the first Monday after 8th of July and the first

6 soutb-west from Chulmleigh, 12 south-east from Torrington Wednesday in October, yearly, for cattle. There is a

and 22 west-north-west from Exeter, in the Northern divi- reading room supported by tmbscriptions. John George

sion of the county, North Tawton and Winkleigh hundred, Johnson esq. .Ill, A., D.L., .J.P. of Winkleigh Court, lord of the

South Molton petty sessional division, Torrington union and manor, the Earl of Portsmouth and JoJhn Tremayne esq.

county court district, rural deanery of Chulmleigh, arch- B.A., D.L., J.P. of Heligan, Cornwall, are the chief land-

deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church owners. The soil is dunland; and the subsoil is chiefly

of All Saints is an ancient building of stone, chiefly in the clay, with some rock. Some parts of the parish are woody

Late Decorated style, and consists of chancel, nave, north and the remainder good corn and grazing land; together

aisle, south porch, transept and an embattled western tower with some estates in Lapford, Coleridge and Zeal Mona·

with pinnacles, containing a clock and 6 bells: the chancel chorum parishes, it originally formed a hundred, now called

and nave are separated from the north atsle by an arcade of Loosebeare tithing. The acreage is 9, n8, including a large

six arches, supported on clustered columns: the trefoiled tract of barren moor land; rateable value, £5,795; the

piscina, with its projecting basin, is of Decorated date, and population in 1891 was 1,o6o.

the ancient priest's door on the south side still remains : Parish Clerk, Charles Williams.

the windows of the nave and aisle are of Perpendicular PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office
character, but many of them have been restored: in 1873 (Railway Sub-Office. Letters should have R.S.O. .N•

.the church underwent a thorough restoration, at an expense Devon a.dded).-Mrs. Emily K. Friend, postmistress.

of nearly £7,000, through the munificence of G. H. Pinckard Letters arrive per railway at 5.11 a. m. ; dispatched at

esq. of Combe Court, Godalming, Surrey: there are 400 7·57 p.m

sittings. The register of baptisms dates from the year 1585 ; WALL LETTER Box, Hollacombe, cleared at 7 a. m. week

marriages and burials, 1569. The living is a vicarage, aver- days only

age tithe rent-charge {.278, net ~·early value £198, with A School Board of 5 members was formed March 6, 1874;

Tesidence and 9 acres of glebe, in the gift of the Dean and T. Letheren, clerk to the board & attendance officer

Chapter of Exeter, and held since r887 by the Rev. Henry ScHOOLS : - -

Bremridge M.A. of St. John's College, Oxford. The Rev. Board (mixed). built in 1876, for 180 children; average

William Davey, vicar of this place and some time curate of attendance, 100; James Tipper, master; Mrs. Sarah Ann

Lustleigh, who died in r826,-wrote and printed with his own Tipper, infants' mistress

bands" A System of Divinity in 26 Volumes," 14 copies Board, Hollacombe (mixed), built in x88x-2, for 5o children;

only being completed. There are Wesleyan and Bible average attendance, go; Miss L. A. Blainey, mistress

Christian chapels in the village, a Bible Christian chapel at CARRIER TO ExETER.-Elias Piper, every thurs

PRIVATE RESIDENTS Dunning Misses, •rownsend cottage JefferiesRev.William[Cong.],Hollacmbe
Ashplant William, Kingford house
Bremridge Rev. Henry x.A. Vicarage 1 Dunning Mrs. Hilliers Johnson John George M.A., D.L., OJ.P.
Bremridge Phi1ip, Lindon house Dunning Richard, 'fownsend house Winkleigb court
Brook James, Hollacombe
Davey Mrs. Centre house Ford Miss, Heath cottage Keenor Mrs. Park place
Davie Philip, Ashley
Dulling l\'Irs Harris Miss, Hollacombe Luxton Mosses, Leebarrie cottage
Harri11 Mrs. Park p~ace
Luxton Mrs. Parsonage

[ Hellyer Mrs Miller Mrs. Fore street

, Isaac Edmund James, The Clotworthy , l\lolland William, sen. Ho'lacombe

672 \VlfiLEIGH. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY's

Norman James Henr_y, Goodleigh Harris Joshua, farmer, Puncherdon Paddon Bartholomew, farmer, Garra-

RStae•vvmenosnHt William HarrisThomas,farmer & miller (water), ton & Coulson
enry, Pa
r k place Taw mill Paddon Thomas, farmer, Wheatland

Stevens Mrs. Paradise Hawkins Fred, butcher Parker George, shoe maker

Stoneman Mrs Hellyer John, farmer, Collacott Partridge William, farmer, Gosset

Upright Mrs Hill Charles, Butchers' Arms inn . Pickard Jonathan, farmer, New house

COMMERCIAL. Inch John, carpenter Piper Elias, carrier

Abel Thomas, farmer, Down Inch Samuel, carpenter Potter George, farmer, Puncherdon

Ashplant Charles, farmer IsaacEphraimBatt,farmr.Chapl.Downs Rattenbury William, farmer, Pensford

AshplantWm. tailor & assistant overseer Isaac Henry, farmer, Park place Raymont Jonas, carpenter

Axford Thomas James, farmer,Stabdon IsaacJames, butcher&farmr.Clotwortby Raymont Thomas, tailor

Baker John, carpenter Jones William, blacksmith Reading Room (James Tipper, hon.sec)

Bird John, boot maker, Hollacombe Keenor Edward, mason Reed John, earthenware dealer

Boundy Richard, farmer, Garraton Keenor Henry, mason Rice Eichard, farmer, Kingsland

Bragg Ernest Henry, farmer, Herdwick Keenor Robert, cooper Robbins George, mason

Brooke Theodore, tailor Lane Thomas, shoe maker, Park place Sampson Robert, farmer, Staple green

Brooke Thomas, mason, Hollacombe Letheren Anuie (Mrs.), draper Saunders Edward, watch&clock maker,

Brooke William, blacksmith, Hollacombe Letheren Frederick George, saddler & temperance hotel

Brooke William, mason, Hollacombe Letheren John, baker Saunders Robert, farmer, Heath hill

Carter Joseph, farmer, Venton Letheren Lucina (Miss), baker Shopland John, farmer, Smitham

Chambers William, wheelwright Letheren Thomas, baker Short Jonathan, farmer, Westwood

Chammings Albert, farmer, Heckapen Luxton Moses & Sons, agricultural im- SimmonsRichard,farmr.WestRiddiford

Cole James, farmer, North Collacott plement maker StevensFras. farmer, HigherHollacombe

Cole Richard, farmer, East heath Luxton William & Robert, farmers, Hill Stevens Samuel, farmer, Park

Cole William, farmer, West Ashley Luxton George, farmer, Riddestone Tinney Edward, Ring of Bells P.H

Collihole Thomas, grocer & ironmonger Luxton Robert John, farmer, Chapel Tout John &William,farmers,Narracott

Cowle John, farmer, Bransgrove Miller Josiah, farmer, Gray's bridge Trick Robert, farmer, Whitehouse

Cowle William, farmer, Wood Terrell Mitchell Ann (Miss), dress maker Tucker Richard, shopkeeper

Crocker Anthony, cattle dlr. Cox's farm Mitchell Charles, carpenter Turner William, King's Arms P.H

Crocker John, boot & shoe maker Mitchell John, blacksmith Turner William, tailor

Crocker Josiah, tailor Mit.chell Richard, carpenter Underhi11 John, farmer, Lane end

Darch James, miller (water) & farmer, Molland James, farmer, East Luxton UnderhillJn.Shopland,farmr.Ea.Ashley

Horry mill Molland Richard, wheelwt. Hollacombe Underhill Wm. farmer, Chittlehampton

Davey Alexander, carpenter MollandWm.jun.farmer,Low.Narracott Ware William, grocer, & agentforW. &

Davey John, farmer, Penson Newcombe Wm. boot& shoe ma.Park pl A. Gilbey, wine & spirit merchants

DavisLouisa(Mrs. ),farmer,EastChapple Norman James Henry L.R.C.P.Edin. 'Vest Samon John, veterinary surgeon

Down George, farmer, Durdon physician & surgeon & medical officer, Westcott Samuel,farmer, Wood Robarts

Down William, iron founder Winkleigh district, 'forrington union, Westaway John, thatcher & farmer

Dulling Albert Edward, shopkeeper Goodleigh White Joel, rope & twine maker

Dulling Henry, tailor & grocer Nott George, farmer, Pittaford Williams Charles & Charlotte (.Miss',

Dullin~r James, tailor Packer Arthur, farmer, Ward Barnstaple inn

Francis William, tinplate worker Paddon John, farmer, Southcott Woollacott Thomas, blacksmith

HarrisJohnMitchell,farmr. SmintonBall

WITHERIDGE is a parish and village on the road ::nanor belongs to the Earl of Portsmouth ; tbat of Bradford

from South Molton to Tiverton, 8 miles north-east from Tracy belonged to the ancestors of Lord Sudeley, now to
Lapford station on the North Devon branch of the London the Rev. J. P. Benson; Dart Ralph is the property of John
and South Western railway, 1o! south-east from South 'fremayne esq. J.P., n.L. late M. P. for East Cornwall and
Molton and 10~ west-by-north from Tiverton, in the South Devon; West Yeo has passed from the Adams family
Northern division of the county, Witheridge hundred, to Mr. S. Cock; Queen Dart belongs to Mr. Ayre. W.
South Molton petty sessional div1sion, union and county Moore esq. J. N. Pyke-Nott esq. Mr. Tucker, Lapford, and
court district, rural deanery of South Molton, archdeaconry Mr. Partridge own land here. Colleton is the property

of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. John of Thomas William Charleton esq. The acreage IS 9,043;
the Baptist is an edifice of stone in the Early Perpendicular rateable value, £4,903; the population in I8gi was 868.
style, con!'isting of chancel, nave of four bays, aisles, south Sexton, 'fhomas Gooding.
porch and an embattled western tower with pinnacles, con- PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-
taining a clock and 8 bells, 6 cast in 1754 and 2 added George Henry Pullen, jun. sub-postmaster. Letters
in 1885 : the clock, which chimes the quarters, was pre- received from Morchard Bishop R.S.O. North Devon, at

sented by George Cutcliffe esq. at a cost of £250: the 6.45 a.m. ; dispatched at 6.45 p.m. week days only.
piers of the nave arcades and the pulpit, which is beautifully Money orders are granted & paid from 9 a. m. to 6 p.m. &
carved, are both of Beer stone : the organ was enlarged in on saturdays till 8 p. m. The office is open on sundays for
1885 at a cost of £~oo: there are six stained windows, three telegrams from 8 to 10 a. m
of which are memorials : the church was repaired about Police Station, John Parker, resident sergeant
1853 and again in 1866: in 1882 it was reseated at a cost of ScHOOLS:-
nearly £r,ooo, and has 350 sittings. The register dates National (mixed), erected in 1846, with master's residence,
from the year r585. The living is a vicarage, average tithe for 200 children ; average attendance, 6o; & endowed

rent-charge £266, gross yearly value £372. including 45 with the interest of £700, left in 1799 by Richard Mel-
acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of and held since huish ; Henry P. Cornish, master ; Mrs. Mary Ellen
1893 by the Rev. John Peter Benson M.A. of Exeter College, Cornish, sewing mistress
Oxford. Here is a Congregational chapel, built in 1839, and British (mixed), for 167 children; average attendance,
a Bible Christian chapel, built jn 1859· The poor have £r6 105; Richard Tibbey Jones, master; Mrs. Jones, mist·ess
yearly in money. There are four fairs one, the last Thurs- CARRIERS:-
day but one in April, the first Thursday after Midsummer John Tidball, to Tiverton, on tues.; Exeter, thurs. & South
day, the first Thursday after the 21st of September and the Molton on sat
first Thursday in November, for cattle and sheep. The Mark Thomas, to Tiverton, tues. thurs & sat. & Exeter fri

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Partridge James Hill, The Lawn Bennett James, shoe maker
Adams Mrs Partridge Mrs. Trafalgar square Bennett Thomas, farmer. Hole
Baker Miss, Sunnyside Partridge Mrs. Samuel, Fern cottage Besley Henry, farmer, Piliven
Beasley Mrs Pullen George Henry, Rosemont Blackford -,farmer, Newland
Selley Mrs Blackford Henry, miller (water), Braa•
Benson Rev. John Peter M.A. [vicar], Thompson Rev. Joseph Hu~ill M.A.
ford mill
Vicarage [rector of Creacombej, Bradford Bucknell Robert, grocer
Bishop Rev. Hugh John Elston [Cong]
COMMERCIAL. Bulled Edmund, wheelwright
Charleton Thomas Williams, Colleton, Burnett Ann (Miss), dress maker
Hill town

Cntcliffe George J.P. Coombe house Adams Jane (Miss), dress maker Bussell George, shoe maker, Adworthy
Elworthy Richard, Mill park Adams John, farmer, Batham Churchill Herbert, baker
Folland Mrs Addicott John, dairyman Churchill Joseph, saddler & seed dealer
Gardner The Misses Ayre George, farmer,Lower Queendart Clark Ephraim, Black Dog P.H
Gordon Henry Laing M.B. Lawn cot Baker Charles, blacksmith & dairyman Clotworthy John, builder
Gunn Mrs Baker Harriett (Miss), dress maker Cole Abraham, farmer, East Essabeer
Letheby Mrs Baker James, Angel hotel & posting ho Comner William, tailor
Cox Henry, farmer, He'1ffers
McArthur Duncan Campbell Bennett Harriet (Miss), shopkeeper

DIRECfORY.] DEVONSHIRE. WITHYCOMBE RALEIGH• 673
•

Cox Samuel, fa-rmer, West Yeo Goodenough Josepb, farm bailiff to Mitchell Thomas, assistant overseer

Crooke John, thatcher George Cntcliffe esq.J.P.Canningtown Nile Nicholas, farmer, Downe

Cmwys George, dairyman Gordon Henry Laing M.B.,C.M. surgeon Partridge Charles, farmer, Lakelands

Cutcliffe George, yeoman, Coombe & . & medical officer & public vaccinator, Partridge William, shoe maker

New house · No. 6 district, South Molton union, Pickard Ann (Mrs.), tailoress

Davey John & William, farmers, Mal- Lawn cottage Pullen George Hy. jun. groc. Post office

stone & Wilson farms Greenslade John, dairyman, Down land Raed Maria (Mrs.), farmer, Horestone

Davey Geo. farmer, Higher Queendart Gunn Charles, Hare & Hounds P.H Selley George, butcher

Dinner William, blacksmith Harris John, farmer, Foxdon Selley John, farmer, Hill town

Elworthy Edwd. vet. surgeon & chemist Hill John & Jas. farmers, Sth. Grindon Sully William, farmer, Elwortby

Farrow Frank, Commercial inn Hodge Henry, shopkeeper Thomas Richard, farmer, Lete

l''ewins Edmund, farmer, Wheadon Holcombe William, tailor Thorne Henry, farmer. Dart far,.,m"'

Flew John, farmer, Park cottage Lee Mary (Mrs.), dress maker Tolley John, farmer, Halling-hayes

Ford Robert, farmer, Witheridge moor Lee Robert, builder Trawin Henry Tapp, wool dealer

Fox, Fowler & Co. bankers (Herbert Lee William, farmer, South Coombe Tucker Joseph, grocer & tailor

John Mansfield, manager) (wed. & McArthur Duncan Campbell, surgeon Tucker William Henry, shoe maker

fri. 11 to 2) ; draw on Barclay, Bevan, Maire Amos, miller (water) & shopkpr Way James & John, carpenters

'Tritton, Ransom, Bouverie & Co. Mansfield Herbert John, groc. & drapr Way Mary (Mrs.), dress maker
London E c
Matthews Harold, farmer, Nth. Coombe Whitfield Selina (Mrs.), baker

Frost Charles, dairyman Maunder Edwin, butcher Wreford William, farmer, Bradford

Greenslade J ames, shopkt>.eper Melhuish John, dairyman, Fare Down Yendall John, farmer, Adworthy

WITHYCOMBE RALEIGH with the Hamlet of HULHAM.

WITHYCOl\rBE RALEIGH (formerly WITHECOMBE RALEIGH) Drake's Charity provides £2 IOS. yearly for apprenticing

is a parish and village, bounded on the west by the broad and £7 yearly for the preaching minister; Spicer's Charity,

.estuary of the river Exe, I to 2 miles north-east from Ex- of £12 yearly, bequeathed in 1844, is distributed in money

mouth terminal station of a branch of the London and South by the parishioners in vestry to such deserving poor as are

Westem railway and 9! south-east from Exeter, in the not in receipt of parish relief; John Spettigue left [10o, the

Eastern division of the county, hundred of East Budleigh, interest to be given in coal to the poor. Marpool Hall, a

petty sessional division of Woodbury, union of St. Thomas, handsome mansion, i.3 the seat of Sir John Budd Phear M.A.

-county court district of Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare J.P.; Southlands is the seat of Lady Stuart : Marley Lodge,

.and archdeaconry and diocese of Exeter. The parish corn- the property of John Pablo Bryce esq. J.P. but now occupied

2tprises part of the town of Exmouth. The old parish church by John Forbes esq. stands on a commanding eminence,
-of St. John the Baptist, originally built in the year 911 and miles north-east of Exmouth, and is encompassed by orna-

-commonly called St. John-m-tbe-Wilderness, being incon- mental shrubberies and extensive gardens, commanding

\'eniently situated, was taken down, with the exception of delightful marine and land views: Bystock, the seat of John

part of the north aisle and the detached embattled western Pablo Bryce esq. J.P. is also an elegant mansion, standing in

tower with its octagonal stair turret, about 1748: these re- well-wooded grounds and distant one mile from the village:

mains, all of Perpendicular date, situated in a sequestered Courtlands, the seat of William Lethbridge esq. M.A., J.P. is

spot, ri miles from the village, are now used as a mortuary a modern mansion on an eminence near the estuary of the

chapel; the aisle has some windows of beautiful design and rh·er Exe, surrounded by ornamental gardens and a small

~fine timbered waggon roof : on the south side of the church- park affording a fine prospect in all directiOns : Withycombe
:yard is an ancient and very fine yew tree, supposed to date House, the seat of Robert Oxlade e~q. is a modern castellated

from the Conquest, and adjoining the churchyard is the structure, with a tower in the centre; the grounds contain

private burial ground of the Bryce family. The new church a lake, crossed by a rustic bridge leading to a plantation on

oQf St. John the Evangelist was built in 1864, at a cost of the higher grounds, from '\\bich a fine view is obtained of

[,s,ooo, on the site given by J. Wood esq. and is a cruciform Exmouth and the sea: A-la-Honde is the s~at of the Rev.

building of stone in the Decorated style, consisting of chan- Oswald Joseph Reichel M.A. Thae are three manors, viz.,

eel, nave, aisles, transepts,_south porch and an embattled Bystock, of which John Pablo Br}CB esq. J.P. is lord; Mar-

tower 011 the south side, containing a clock and 8 bells, the pool, of which Samuel Hull esq. is lord, and Hulham, of

last two having been added in 18c)3: the east window is a which John Drewe Pratt esq. of Spratshayes, Littleham, near

memorial to Frances Anne, wife of OLho Cooke esq. d. April2, Exmouth, is lord; these are also the principal landowners.

1'872; the west window was erected to Thomas Cobbam esq. 'fhe soil is clay; subsoil, clay and gravel. The chief crops

of Marley Lodge, d. Jan. 28, 1865 ; and there is one in the are wheat, barley and oats. The area is r,882 acres of land

south aisle to Louisa, wife of J. B. Dawson Thomas, of Tre- and 635 of water; rateable value, [15,732; the population

.goes, Glamorganshire, d. May 22, r869: there are 6oo sit- in 1891 was 3,832, including 2,947 in that part of Exmouth

tings. The registers date from the year 1562. The living which is in this parish.

is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £156, net yearly HuLHAll[ is a hamlet, three-quarters of a mile north-west

value £I75• with residence and I2 acres of glebe, in the gift from Withycombe village, and consists of a few cottages and
of the Hon. M. G. Kerr RoUe, and held since 1892 by the farms.

Rev. Godfrey Pierre de Pntron M.A. of Pembroke College, Sexton, John Snow.
.Oxford. There is a Wesleyan mission chapel, erected in
1884, with sittings for 150 persons. The Plymouth Brethren PosT 0FFICE.-William Henry Wright, sub-postmaster.
have a cemetery here about three-quarters of an acre in L~tters arrive through Exmouth at 8 a.m. & 4 & 8 p.m.;

extent. The charitable institution called "Point-in-View" dispatched 9.10 a.m. & 6.5o p.m.; sunday, 9.10 a.m.

was founded in I8II by the late Misses Parminter and Postal orders are issued here, but not paid. Exmonth is

eomprises dwellings f;r four poor aged maidens, with a 'small the nearest money order & telegraph office

Congregational chapel and a house for the minister, erected National School (mixed), built in 1865, for 189 children;

the same year; the chapel stands in the centre, and over the j average attendance, 129; & has an endowment of [35

door is the inscription, "Some point in view we all pursue." yearly from Drake's charity ; Mrs. Annie Taylor, mistress

Withycombe Raleigh. Oxlade Robert, Withycombe house Gilliland Sergt.-Maj. Jn. drill instruetr
Pearson John, Redgate Hallett Thomas, farmer, Marpool farm
PRIVATE RESIDENTS.
PhearSirJn.Budd M.A.,J.P.Marpool ball Hooper Henry Horn, brick & tile maker

naldock Mrs. Cauleston Pulsford James, Brookhayes Horn Jacob, market gardener, Bee cot

Eazalgette Col. Wm. Jsph. Keverel ho Heichel Rev. Oswald Joseph M.A. A-La- Humphries Charles, blacksmith

llryce John Pablo J.P. Bystock Ronde [letters via Lympstone] Irish William John, market gardener

Cole Edward Campbell Stuart J.P. Shapland John Dee, Burnside !Knott Walter,dairyman,Low.Halsdown

Stoke Lyne Stuart Lady, Southlands /Long Henry James, miller (water)

de Patron Rev. Godfrey Pierre M. A. The Sweet Miss, Trevarshes MMaanrkles•vTShaormahas(,Mfarrsm.),e laund ress s
Vicarage . Wilkinson Thomas Lewis, The Grange r, St. John'

Dunn WilliamHerbert,Withycombe cot COMMERCIAL. MarE!hall Ellen (Mrs.), laundress

Forbes John, Marley lodge BeaviS Frank, blacksmith Pannell Mary (Mrs.), laundress

Kendall Ed win Joseph, Port view Beavis Geor,!!e, beer retailer Pannell Philip, jobbing gardener

King Rev. Henry [Congregational], Bowerman Maria (Mrs.), laundress Palmer John, tailor

Point-in-View [letters via Lymp- Bremridge John Langdon, farmer, Parsons Thomas, shopkeeper

stone, Exeter] Halsdown farm Sage Ambrose, farmer, Lacington

LethbridgeWilliam M. A.,J. P. Courtlands Copp Elizabeth (Mrs.), laundress Shapland John Dee, surgeon & medi<"al

[letters via Lympstone, Exeter] Farrant Robert, farmer, Brixington officer & public vaccinator, Exmoutll

Nash Henry Smith, Greenway cottage Gatter Edwin William, boot maker district, St. Thomas union, Burnside

DEV. & CORY. 43

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674 WITHYCOMBE RALEIGH. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLy's

Sage William, dairyman Wheaton William, farmer, Ash farm Hulham.
Smith Waiter, shoe maker
Snow Wilham, carpenter Willmot Arthur John, florist Bandinell Mrs
Stocker Thomas, Holly Tree P.H. &;
Willmot Henry, shopkeeper 1 Crabb Joel, farmer, Simmond's farm
saddler
Ward William, farmer, Westcott Withycombe Reading & Recreatioq I Palfrey Henry, farmer, Lovering

Room (John Hopgood, hon. sec) Savery William, farmer, Parrey's farm

Wright Wm. Henry, baker, Post office 1 WescottMary(Mrs.),dairy,Hulhm.Brtn

• WOLBOROUGH, see NEWTON ABBOT.

WOODBURY is a large village and parish, near the quarters of a mile south; and the chapelry of WooDBURY

estuary of the river Exe and the roads leading from Ex- SALTERTON, 1! miles north.

eter to Exmouth and Sidmouth, 2! miles east from Wood- By a Local Government Order, which came into operation

bury Road station on the Exeter and Exmouth branch of the March 25, 1884. a detached part of this parish, known as

London and South Western railwa~·, 7 south-east from Ex- Great and Little Houndbere, was amalgamated with Ayles-

eter, 3! south-east from Topsham,s north-east from Exmouth beare.
a:t~d 178! from London and is also the head of a petty ses- Sexton, George Mutter.

sional division, in the Eastern division of the county, hundred PosT, M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

of East Budleigh, union of St. Thomas, county court district Thomas P. Daley, sub-postmaster. Letters arrive from

of Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare and archdeaconry and Exeter at 6 a.m. & 5· 15 p.m.; dispatched thereto at 2.30

diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Swithin is an ancient & 7·5 p.m
building of stone in the Decorated and Perpendicular style..<J, WALL LETTER BoxEs.-Nutwelllodge, cleared at 7·35 p.m.

consisting of chancel, nave, north aisle, south porch and an daily; Ebford (near Mr. Hugos'), cleared at 7.20 a.m. &

embattled western tower, erected in 1408 and containing a 4.30 p.m. week days; sunday, 7.20 a.m.; Exton (near

clock and 6 bells, respectively dated (with the exception of Railway inn), cleared at 6.45 a.m. & 4.30 p.m.; sunday,

the fourth, which has a prayer to the Virgin in Old English 6.45 a. m. only

characters) 1737, 1624, 16os, 1677 and r629: the nave and CoUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR WoonnuRY PETTY SEsSIONAL

tower are in the Perpendicular and the chancel in the Deco- · DIVISION.

rated style : in the church is a monument to Sir HenrY' Pol- Chair taken in turns.

lexfen kt. chief justice of the Common l'leas 168g-gi, ob. Drogheda Earl of, Delamore, Exmouth

June 15, 1691 : in the north aisle is a flat stone, exhibiting Dunboyne Lord, Greendale, Clyst St. Mary, Exeter

the matrices of ancient brasses to the Haydon family : on the Seaton Lord D.L. Nutwell court, Lympstone, Exeter

north side of the chancel is an altar tomb, with recumbent Rolle Hon. Mark Geo. Kerr n.L. Bicton, Budleigh Salterton

effigies of a knight in armour and a lady, probably represent- Phear Sir John Budd M.A. Marpool hall, Exmouth

ing Sir Thomas Prideaux kt. ob. 1640, and Joan (Cole), his Birch Col. Charles, Lympstone grange, Exeter

wife: the church is now (1893) about to be restored at a .Bryce John Pablo esq. Bystock, Exmouth

cost of about £1,ooo: there are 350 sittings. The register Cole Edward Campbell Stuart esq. Stoke Lrne, Exmouth

of baptisms and marriages dates from the year 1557; burials Cooper Capt. Albert Beauchamp Astley, Temple Hill, near

1575, and is in good condition. The living is a vicarage, Budleigh Salterton

average tithe rent-charge £65, net yearly value £18o, m- Garratt Lieut.-Col. Jn. Arth. Thos. Bishop's court, Exeter

eluding 20 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Hamilton Alexander Kelso esq. D.L. The Retreat., Topsham

Custos and College of Vicars Choral in Exeter Cathedral, and Johnson Edward esq. Farringdon house, Exeter

held since 1846 by the Rev. John Loveband Fulford M.A. of Langton Charles Augustus esq. M.A. The Gables, Exmouth

Trinity College, Cambridge. The chapel of ease in the ham- Lethbridge William esq. M.A. Courtlands,Lympstone,Exeter

let of Exton is a small but plain building, with a thatched Ley Richard esq. Duncroft, Exmout·h

roof, consistmg of nave and a belfry containing one bell : Naper Lieut.-Col. William Dutton, Stanley lodge, Exmouth

there are 78 s1ttings. The Free church, built in 185r, is a Peters William Hy. esq D.L.Harefield ho.Lympstone,Exeter

plain edifice of brick with a turret containing one bell and Peters 1\-Iajor.Gen. William Henry B!'ooke, Harefield house,

will seat 200 persons. There is a small Unitarian chapel in Lympstone, Exeter
the hamlet of Gulliford, erected in 1774, with an endowment Ravenscroft Edward William esq. c.s.I. Elvestone house,

of about £75 yearly from Lady Hewlcy's charity. The Budleigh Salterton

charities amount to about [,37 yearly and are distributed Rocke Major-Gen. James Harwood C.B. Tenerife, Exmouth

principally in money. Here is a tannery and two malting Sim William Clulow esq. Knowle, Clyst St. George, Exeter

establishments and at Ebford a manufactory of nitro-phos- Walker Lieut.-Col. Hetbert John Ouchterlony (late R.A.),

phate manure belonging to Messrs. Odams and Co. A plea- Leeford, Budleigh Salterton S.O

sure fair is held on the Wednesday in Whitsun-week. The Clerks to the Magistrates, Henry C. Adams & Herbert C.

Woodbury volunteer tire brigade has an engine station, Adams, Exmouth ·

erected in 1885, and a manual engine and hose. On the Petty Sessions are held fortnightly, alternately with Ex·

lofty summit of Woodbury common, which overlooks the mouth, at 11 a. m. at the Court house, a commodious

El:e and Otter valleys and commands a fine view of the sea, building

are the remains of an ancient entrenchment called "Wood- Special petty sessions are now held at Exmouth every wed-

bury Castle," of British or Saxon origin. Nutwell Court, an nesday & Saturday when there are cases to be tried in ad-

elegant modern mansion on the estuary of the river Exe, dition to above

surrounded by trees and shrubberies, with a park extending The following places are included in the petty sessional

over 76 acres, is the seat of Sir Francis George Augustus division :-Bicton, Clyst St. George, Clyst Satchtield,

Fuller-Eliot-Drake hart.; Ebford Barton is the residence of Clyst Honiton, Clyst St. Mary, Colaton Raleigh, East

Col. George Jackson. The Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle Budleigh, Farringdon, Littleham &; Exmouth, Lympstone,

D.L., J.P. of Bicton, who is lord of the manor, Sir F. G. A. Otterton, Sowt.on, Withycombe Raleigh, Woodbury

Fuller-Eliot-Drake hart. and Mrs. Brent are the chief land- Police Station, Globe hill, Jn. Diamond, sergeant in charge

owners, but there are several small freeholders. The soil is SCHOOLS:-

clay and good marl ; subsoil clay with large pebble. The National (mixed), with master's residence attached,

chief crops are wheat, oats, barley, beans and peas; turnips erected in 1872, at a cost of £t,ooo, & enlarged in 1887,

swedes, mang.olds, potatoes and apples are largely grown. for 240 children ; average attendance, 184; Henry Pyne,

The area is 6,864 acres of land, including 734 acres of com- master

mon, and 500 of water; rateable Yalue, £10,196; the popu- Exton (mixed), erected, with house for mistress, in 1875,

lation in 1891 was 1,644, which includes 318 in the ecclesias- at a cost of [,450, part of Broadmead's gift, & enlarged in

tical parish of W oodbury Salterton. 1886, for So children; average attendance, 48; Mrs. Mary
The following are hamlets in this parish :-EBFORD, 2l Anne Randall, mistress

miles west-by-north; ExToN, 2 miles south-west ; NuT- Woodbury Road station, Gcorge Moore, station master

WELL, 2 miles south-west, near the Woodbury Road station; CARRIER TO EXIo:TER.-John Gordon, every tues. &; fri. to

GULLIFORD, 2i miles south-west j WOODMANTON, three- ' White Hart,' returning same day

Woodbury. Hole Francis Richard, Fairfield house •
Morgan Mrs. Broadway
PRIVATE RESIDENTS. Norman Miss, Parsonage Style cottage West Mrs. Globe hill
Wheaton Richard
Adcock Mrs. Parsonage, Style cottage [letters via Lympstone1
~ COMMERCIAL.
[letters via Lympstone] Parke Capt. l''rederick, Heatherdene Bamsey Frederick, shoe maker
Pearce Francis Drake, Woodbury lodge Bastin John, basket maker
Frampton Mrs. Oak Hayes Ravenhill Henry, Sunnyside Berry Edwin,brass founder, millwright,
Spencer Thomas Brent, Sydney cottage
Fulford Rev. JohnLoveband M.A. [vicar], StokE:s Tom, Rosemary cottage agricultural implement make{' &
Stokes William, Broadway agent &c. Green
The Parsonage Berry HaiTiet (Mrs.), pork butcher,
Ware Henry, Gilbrook house Broadway
Folford Mrs. 'fhe Priory Brice Henry, farmer, Ford

Furnivall Henry Wallace, Southcroft

Harris William, Globe hill .

JDIRECTORY. • WOODL.!ND. 675

DEVONSHIRE.

Browning Luke, boot & shoe maker & Livermore Mary (Mrs.), shopkeeper Stogdon Miss, Exton house

ironmonger, Broadway Miller James, smith, Broadway Stogdon Thos.Robt.Suxptitch,Exton ho

Clapp Mary (Mrs.}, shopkeeper Miller John Lock, hawker & farmer Ward Henry

Copp William, farmer, Lower Venmore Nicks John, farmer, Coombe farm Ward Miss
[letters via LympstoneJ
Crook Hermon, farmer Alford William & John, farmers

Crook Hermon, jun. smith Perry John, baker Bradbeer Adam, farmer

Daley Thomas P .shopkeeper, Post office Phillips Arthur Edward, builder Nickels James, farmer & miller (water)

Daley William, tailor Pile Henry, farmer, Bagmores Potter William, Railway inn

Diamond John, police sergt. Globe hill Skinner Sarah Jane (Mrs.), grocer Randall Henry James, carpenter

Down Josiah,farmer & road contractor, Smith & Son. millers (water), Rydon ml Symes Herbert, market gardener

Higher Venmore Squires Mary (Mrs.), dress maker

Dnnscombe William,farmer,Bridge pitt Stamp Charles Hy. butcher & farmer Nutwell.

Ebbels Elizabeth C. (Mrs.), White Hart Stokes Harry, church bell hanger & [Letters via Lympstone, Exeter.]

P.B. maltster & brewer builder &c
Summerfield William Charles, mason Fuller-Eliot-Drake Sir Francis George
Ekers William, carpenter Thomas Samuel & Jn. farmers, Izel cot Augustus hart. Nutwell court

Fayter John, corn dealer Seaton Lord D.L., J.P. Nutwell court

Furnivall Henry Wallace, surgeon, & Tucker Henry, shoe maker
medical officer & public vaccinator, VolunteerFireBrigade(Edwn.Berry,cpt) Northcote Miss, Upper Nutwell
Hockey Thomas, farm bailiff to Sir F.
Woodbury district, St.Thomas union, Ware & Sons, tanners
Westcott Jchn William, Globe P.H. & G. A. Fuller-Eliot-Drake bart
Southcroft Symes Henry, head gardener to Sir

Furse John, builder & contractor, car- posting house & farmer Francis G. A.Fuller-Eliot-Drake bart

penter, wheelwright & assessor & 1Vheaton John, baker
collector of income tax for Woodbury White way Joseph, farmer, Church st.yle Thorn George, farmer

& Lympstone parishes

Glanvill Henry, farmer & registrar of Ebford. G u l l i fo r d.

births & deaths forWoodbury sub-dist [Letters viil. Topsham, Exeter.] [Letters via Lympstone, Exeter.]

Glanvill James, farmer, Rydon farm Coles John 1 Hearn Frederick
Glanvill Robert, brewer & maltster , Hallett William, farmer
Hugo Waiter
Godfrey William J. chimney sweeper Jackson Col. George, Ebford Barton Perry Richard, market gardener
Eveleigh John, wheelwright Pike Joseph, market gardener
Gordon John, carrier . Gibbings William, farmer

Gordon Sophia (Miss), dress maker

Havill John, butcher Harris Charles, blacksmith Woodmanton.
Havill William, coal merchant Nitro-Phosphate (The) &Odams Chemi-

Hearn Edward, vet. surgeon, Broadway cal Manure Co. Lim. manure manfrs HavillAbraham,farmer,HigherMallocks
Hooper Caroline (Mrs.), shopkeeper Russell John, farmer, Ebford Barton Hill Noah, farmer
Hooper Jane (Miss), dress maker Nicks William, farmer
Smith William, wheelwright
Hooper Thomas, church bell hanger Withers William, farmer Pring Keziah (Mrs.), dairyman, Lower

Jarman Henry, mason Ma !locks

Knott Waiter, farmer Exton. Rew Sarah (Mrs.), dairy

Lake Richard, jnn. shoe maker [Letters via Topsha.m, Exeter.] Stuart John, poultry dealer

Lear Tom Edwd. grocer &c. Broadway Rogers Mrs. Dale side

WOODBURY SALTERTON is a village and ecc1e- Richard Marker esq. is lord of the manor. The principal

siastical parish, formed iu 1845 from portions of the civil landowners are the Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle D.L., J.P.
parishes of 1Yoodbury and Colaton Raleigh, 4 miles east of Bicton; Richard Marker esq. and Charles Edward

from Topsham station on the Exmouth branch of the Lon- Thornycroft esq. J.P. of Thornycroft Hall, Cheshire. The
don and South Western railway, 6 south-east from Exeter soil is clay; subsoil, red sandstone. The chief crops are

and 6 north from Exmouth, in the Eastern division of the wheat, oats, barley and vetches; much of the land is pas-
county, hundred of East Budleigh, Woodbury petty ses- turage, for dairy purposes. The popu1ation of the parish in

sional division, St. Thomas' union, county court district of 1891 was 385.

Exeter, rural deanery of Aylesbeare, and archdeaconry anr. GREENDALE is a hamlet, i miles north-east, in the civil

diocese of Exeter. The church of the :aoly Trinity is a build- parish of Woodbury, but included in the ecclesiastical parish
ing of stone in the Gothic style, erected in 1844 by the late of Woodbury Salterton.

Miss Marianne Pidsley, of Greendale; it consists of chancel, Parish Clerk, Frederick G. Turner.

nave, south porch and a western belfry containing 3 bells, all PosT 0FFLCE.-George Harrison, sub-postmaster. Letters

<-"ast in 1844: the east window represents the "Incredulity received from Exeter at 7 a. m.; dispatched at 6.20 p.m.;
of St. 'fhomas : " all the windows are stained, and were de- no sunday business. The nearest money order & telegraph
signed and executed by Mrs. Thornycroft, the patroness of office is at Woodbury
the living; a new organ was erected in ra84 at a cost of School (mixed), erected in 1847, by the late Miss Marianne

£150 : the church will seat 240 persons. The register dates Pidsley, of Greendale, & endowed by the late Rev. J.
from the year 1845· The living is a vicarage, net yearly value Thornycroft in r88o with a sum of £75 yearly, who alsQ-

£2341 with residence and 5 acres of glebe, in the gift of Mrs. erected in r876, at a cost of £139, a village clock, with
Thornycroft, and held since 1882 by the Rev. Henry Powell large bell, weighing over 6 cwt.; all the windows in the.
Alford M.A. of New College, Oxford. In the centre of the school are stained, & were designed & execute:! by Mrs.
village is a large stone water cistern, the ~ift of the late Miss Thornycroft & Miss Pidsley ; the· school will hold 100
Pidsley, the sides of which bear suitable scriptural texts. children; average attendance, 6o; Fredk. G. Turner, mast.

Alford Rev. Henry Powell M.A. Vicarage Glowing Rt.gardener to LordDunboyne Smith Geo. farmer, Lower Pilehayes

Kerslake Thomas Harrison Geo. shopkeeper, Post office Smith James, farmer, Cook's farm

Oldfield Fk. H. The Warren, Colaton hl Hartnell Wm. farmer, B1gher Hogsbrk Staddon Thomas, thatcher

Spencer Herbert, Stallcombe house Hill Charles, farmer, Wrinkly Stevens John Gerry, carpenter

Tattershall John Kain John, farmer & landowner, Basses Stooke ·wmiam, farmer, Bridge farm

Worth Lloyd, Cannon Wall & Clay Hills farms TavenderJn.Thomas,farmer,Greendale

Kerslake Frances (Mrs.), farmer Tucker James, farmer, Heathfield

COliMERCIAL. Mingo George, farmer, Seven Mile stone 'furl Lewis, boot maker

Bowden Robert, farmer & horse dealer, Phillips Robert, farmer Ware James, cowkeep3r

Greendale Pring Henry, dairyman, Greendale Ware Samuel, beer retailer & farmer

Comes Frederick, farmer & cooper,! Pyle By. Jesse,farmer,HigherPilehayes Wilson George (Mrs.), farmer [letters

Coombe park Pyle Joseph, farmer, Hogsbrook via Clyst St. Mary]
Dagworthy Mary (Miss) & Hy. farmers j Pyne George, farmer, Postlake [letters Wilson Richard, farmer, Greendale

Dew Joseph, dairyman via Clyst St. George] Wood William, blacksmith

WOODLAND is a village and parish 2! miles east-by- south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 3
south from Ashburton terminal station of a branch of the 1 be1ls : there are several monumental tablets : the church
1

Great Western railway, and 6 south-we.'lt from Newton I affords rso sittings. The register dates from the year 1560.

Abbot, in the Mid division of the county. Haytor hundred, There are some curious and very valuable parochial deeds

Teignbridge petty sessional division, Newton Abbot union~ dating from :1532, and including original letters of King
and county court district, rural deanery of Moreton, arch- I Henry VIII. with the great seal attached and a license from

deaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of I Cardinal Pole (temp. Philip and Mary). The living is a
St. John the Baptist is an edifice of stone in the Late Per- I vicarage, gross yearly value £210, with residence, in the

pendicular style, consisting of chancel. nave, north aisle1 gift of the parishioners, and held since r867 by the Rev.

DEV. & CORN. 43 '*=

676 WOODLAXD. DEVONSHIRE. [KELLY'~

Thomas Waltham Were B. A. of St. Mary Hall, Oxford., Parish Clerk, Daniel Butchers.

There are a fe~ charities .of the yea~ly valu.e of about £2o. Letters through A1~hburton R.S.O. which is the nearest

Here are quarries producmg a superiOr quahty of green and monev order & telegraph office arrive at 8 a.m. WALL

purple slate. Frederick Mtlman esq. William John Kitson LETTER Box cleared at 5· IS p.~. week days only
esq. of Shiphay House, near Torquay, and George Edmund
Alien esq. of Wickeridge, are the chief landowners. The soil This parish sends two members to the Broadhempston school
is clayey ; the subsoil, slate. The chief crops are wheat, board, formed March 12, 1875

barley and oats. The area is 1,6o6 acres ; rateable value, The children of this parish attend the Board schools at

£1,716; the population in 189r was 184. Broadhempston & Ashburton

[:M:arkerl thus 0 should be addressedDenbury, COMMERCIAL. MPeaatrrcaeveRsicJhoahrnd,, ffaarrmmeerr, Merryfield

Newton .Abbot.] *.Ashford William, farmer, I,ake Reed Petel' Thomas, farmer

Allen George Edmund, Wickeridge Butchers Daniel,carpenter, Orleycombe Smerdon Betsy (Mrs.), farmer, Tor
Sherard Lord, Gurrington Cock Jonathan, farmer, Dipwell Smerdon Elijah, farmer, Well
Sherard Mrs. Gurrington Hamlyn Edwin, farmer, Waye farm Smerdon James, farmer, Higher lake
Were Rev. Thomas Waltham B.A. Leaker Thomas, farmer, Hawks farm White Amy (Mrs.),farmer, Hirelakecot
*Luscombe John, farmer, Levaton *White John, farmer, Pulsford
Vicarage

WOODLEIGH is a parish and small agricultural village, a\·erage £26o, gross yearly value £3go,1net £351, including

with a station in the parish, on the Kingsbridge branch of 85 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Dean and
the South Devon section of the Great Western railway, 3~ Chapter of Exeter Cathedral, and held since 1888 by the

miles north from Kingsbridge, in the Southern division of Rev. Frederick Arthur Sanders M.A. of Keble College, Ox-

the county, hundred of Stanborough, petty sessional division ford. There is a rent-charge of £I I ss. from hnds at Lower-

of Stanborough and Coleridge, Kingsbridge union and county dale, which is annually divided amongst the poor of Wood-
court district, rural deanery of Woodleigh, archdeaconry of leigh. The principal landowners and lords of th~ manor are

Totnes and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Mary is an the trustees of the late John Luscombe esq. and Charles

ancient edifice of stone, in the Perpendicular style, consist- Tayleur esq. The soil is loam and clay; subsoil, various.
ing of chancel, nave, transepts, south porch and an em- The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and pasture. The

battled western tower containing 3 bells: the interior con- area is 2,596 acres ; rateable value, £2,140; the population

tains some monuments of the Luscombe and Cornish in r89I was rg8.
families, and in the chancel is an interesting exam pi~ of an Sexton, William Kennard.

Easter sepulchre: the church plate includes a sliver flagon Letters by foot post from Totnes, via Mounts R.S.O. arrive

presented by Lady Amy FoTtescue in 1686, weighing 4 at 6.45 a.m Lette1·s should be addressed Mounts R.S.O.

pounds 12 ounces, which has the Fortescue and Courtenay Devon
arms emblazoned upon it: the church has lately (1893) WALL LETTER Box cleared at 6.30 p.m. The nearest

been thoroughly restored at a cost of £I,2oo, under the money order & telegraph office is at Kingsbridge

-direction of Mr. G. H. Fellowes Prynne, architect: there are Church School (mixed), formerly a cottage, but altered &

170 sittings. The register dates from the year 1635. The enlarged for a school to hold 45 children; average attend-

living is a rectory, tithe rent-charge as commuted £340, ance, 33; Miss Rosa Jane Crooks, mistress

SandersRev.Fredk. Arthr. .M.A. Rectory Hurrell Samuel, farmer, Capton Rogers Wm. farmer, Preston Combe

Kendall Ann (Mrs.), miller (water) Smerdon James, thatcher
Trant Thomas, farmer, Borough
COl\I.MERCIAL. Kennard George, blacksmith

'Haker Benjamin, carpenter, Preston L1dstone Agnes (Mrs.), farmer, Farm Underhay Uriah, farmer, Lowerdale
Gillard N. Moysey,farmer,Wood Barton Luscombe Henry, farmer, Hendham ·widger George, farmer, Hendham

WOOLFARDISWORTHY(nearCrediton)isaparish don Gamlen esq., 'M.A. of Brampton Speke, and Charles
..and village, 6~ miles north from Crediton, where is the Comyns Tucker esq. M. A. of Marchand Bishop, are the prin-
nearest railway station, and 14! north-west from Exeter, in cipal landowners. The soil is loam and clay ; the subsoil is
the Northern division of the county, Witheridge hundred, rock. The chief crops are barley, wheat and oats. The
Cred1ton petty sessional division, union and county court
district, rural deanery of Cadbury and archdeaconry and acreage is 1, 815 ; rateable value, £I ,634; the population in
diocese of Exeter. The church of The Holy Trinity, rebuilt in
189I was 176.
Parish Clerk, Henry Hemmett.

1845. is an edifice in the Early Perpendicular style, consist· Letters by foot post arrive at 8.go a.m. from Morchard

ing of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch and an em- Bishop R.S.O.; tLhEeTnTeEaRreBstomx oclneeayreodrdaetr5&.4t5elpeg.mrap.;h Mar-
chard Bishop is office
battled western tower, containing 3 bells, the first two dated
respectively 1736 and 1740; the tenor has an inscription in
Old English characters : there are 142 sittings. The register A School Board of 5 members W3S formed April7, I876, for
·dtid.t.hteesrfernotm-chthaergyee£ar1Is616, 4g.rosTshyeelairvliyngvailsuae rectory, average Woolfardisworthy, Washford Pyne & Kennerleigh. Thel-
£ 24I, including bridge also contributes 2 mambers; Rev. H. A. Slack M.A.
•9 5 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Rev. hon. clerk to the board; Frederick Chappie, Washford
Anthony Benn 1\I.A., J.P. and held since 1893 by the Rev.
Pyne, school attendance officer

Frederick John Faulkner B.A. of Emmanuel College, Cam- Board School (Blackdog), built in 1876, at a cost of [,1,6I7,

bridge. The Rev. Anthony Benn M.A., J.P. of Pudleston for 95 children; average attendance, 74; Wi:liam Henry

Court, Leominster, who is lord of the manor, William Blag- Rogers, master; Mrs. Jane Rogers, mistress

Faulkuer Rev. Fredk. Jn. M.A. Rectory· Crossman William, miller (water) Slater John, farmer, West Emlett

COMJ.IERCIAT,. ' Gamlen Leonard Blagdon, farmer & Snell Thos. farmer, Higher Bowerhay

Belworthy Mary Ann (Mrs.), farmer, 1, HalamnmdoewttnSera,rEahas(tMErms.)le, tdtairy farmer Tomkins John, thatcher
North Densham Tucker Samuel, farmer

Bickley William, farmer, Barton Hern Richard, farmer, South Emlett Webber Chas. farmer, Lower Bowerhay
Burrow Francis, farmer, Hudgery
IMedland Robert, farmer, Higher Tree Webber Frederick, farmer

Crossman George, farm bailiff to H. B. [ Selley Oliver, farmer, East Brownstone White Thomas, farmer

Birmingham, of Poughill 1 .

WOOLFARDISWORTHY WEST (near Bide- Mrs. Hamlrn, of Clovelly Court; Mrs. John .!.ndrew ~

ford) is a parish and village, 8 miles west-south-west from Richard James Cary-Elwes esq. J.P. of Walland Cary, Buck's
.Bideford and 6~ east-south-east from Hartland, in the North Mills; Mrs. Mary Bond and Messrs. Richard Short, Thomas

Western division of the county, Hartland hundred, Bideford Cann, John Cory, Joseph Burrow, William Sanders, Job
J~etty sessional division, union and county court district, Andrew and T. Burrow, Mrs. Coham and Richard Bond. The
soil is various and the subsoil clay. The crops are oats,
rural deanery of Hartland, archdeaconry of Barnstaple and roots and wheat. The area is 5,798 acres ; rateable value,
£2,986; the population in I89r was 66o.
diocese of Exeter. The church of the Holy Trinity is an
SexLon, 'fhomas Hopper.
ancient edifice of stone in the Norman and Later styles, con-

sisting of chancel, nave, aisles, vestry, south porch and an

embattled western tower with pinnacles, containing 6 bells: PoST 0FFICE.-Job Andrew, sub-postmaster. Letters
and above is an ancient watch-tower: the church contains a t4mh.o3ro0nuepyg.u'-mor.Bd"1eodrne&fowrBdeuerckekc'sedi·aCvyersodsosanttleyl9.e·g5roCaploah.vmeolf.lfyi;ceids"rsthpae~•cnheeadreastt

Norman doorway with enrichments and a font of the same A School lloard of 5 members was formed Nov. 24, 1874;
date, and was restored in I872: there are about 300 sittings.
The register dates from the year I723. The liviug is a vic- Douglas Richard Harding, clerk to the board

arage, gross yearly value £ 90, including 16 acres of glebe,

with residence, in the gift of the trusteei of the late Mrs. L.

E. Hawkes, and held since 1888 by the Rev. Frederick Board School (mixed), opened in 1879, for 100 children;

Courtenay Burrough. There is a Bible Christian chapel here average attendance, 59 ; James Hicks, master

and a Wesleyan chapel at Almanstone. The principal land- Bucks Mills is an ecclesiastical parish, formed April

owners are Mrs ~V. W. Melhuish, o{ Court Ham, Holsworthy; 29, I862, frum the civil parishes of Parkh'\m and Woulfar-

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. WEST WORLISGTO:\. 677

disworthy, and is Si miles west from Bideford station on the the North Devon Infirmary and Bideford Hospital and the

Torrington branch of the London and South Western rail- parish Clothin~ Club. Walland Cary, the seat of Richard

way. The church of St. Anne is an edifiee of stone in the James Cary-Elwes esq. J.P. the principal landowner, is a
Early English style, built and endowed by the late Mrs. a modern mansion situated in beautifully wooded grounds
Elwes, and consists of chancel, nave, south porch and a on the shore of the Bristol Channel. The soil is heavy loam;
tower on the north side of the chancel, containing one bell : subsoil, clay and rock. The chief crops are roots and oats.

the tower was restored in 1887: there are 130 sittings. The The area is I,IOo acres; the populati'ln in 1891 was 250.
register dates from the year 1866. 'fhe living is a vicarage, Sexton, Richard Prouse.

net yearly value £195, including 17 acres of glebe, with PosT & 'f. 0. Bucks Cross.-William Jenn, sub-post-
residence, in the gift of Ric~1ard James Cary-Elwes esq. and master. Letters through Bideford, delivered at 9 a.m. ;

held since 1885 by the Rev. Albert Hughes M.A. of Clare dispatched at 5.10 p. m. ; & 4.10 p. m. on sundays. Postal

College, Cambridge. Here is a small Wesleyan chapel. orders are issued here, but not paid. Clovelly is the

The interest of £1,000, left by Mrs. Elwes, is for medical nearest money order office
aid to the poor, afforded under the direction of the vicar ; National School, for So children; average attendance, 36;
there is also the interest of £xoo, which is divided between Mrs. Mary Ann Kallaway, mistress

Woolfardisworthy West. •

Delve William, farmer & yeoman, Trick John, mason, Almanstone

Burrough Rev. Fdk. Courtenay,Vicarage Higher Almanstone Vanstone Elizh.(Mrs. ), farmr.Huddisfrd

COMMERCIAL. Eastabrook George, stud proprietor & WadeRichd.carpntr.&frmr.Stroxworthy

manure agent Westaway Thomas, farmer, West town

Alien Thomas, farmer, Marshall Glover Edward. farmer, Huddisford Westaway Thomas, jun. blacksmith &

Andrew James, farmer, Asbtecroft Goodenough William, boot maker carpenter

Andrew Job,grocr.frmr.&drapr.Post off Harding Jamin, farmer, Durdon Wood Jn. miller (water), Leworthy mill

Bailey Marwood, farmer, Satchfield Harding Rd. farmer & yeoman, Cranfrd Bucks Mills.
Becalick James, farmer, Leworthy
Becalick Joseph, yeoman, Cranford Hobbs John, farmer, Huddisford Braund Mrs
Bond Caleb, farmer, Hole
Bond John C. butcher Hockridge John, farmer Cary-Elwes Richard James J.P. Wal-
Boundy Thomas, farmer, Runland
Lee Robert, blacksmith & farmer land Cary

Lewis John, blacksmith
Moore John, farmer, Ashmansworthy Hughes Rev. Albert M.A. Vicarage

Braund Richard, relieving officer for Moore Noah, farmer, Stroxworthy COMMERCIAL.

Western district & registrar of births, Moore Richd. carpentr. Cranford water Crews Simon, miller (water)

deaths & marriages & vaccination Moore Richard, jun. carpenter, Ham- Dark James, farmer

officer for Hartland sub-district, metts, West town Dark Matilda (Mrs.), shopkeeper

Bideford union Nancekh·ell Robt. fa...,nmner, Higher Venn Davey George, carpenter, Bucks Cross

Brent Samuel, farmer, West moor Nancekivell Robt. farmer, Lower Venn Davey William, farmer & builder,

Brent Wm. farmer, Hurley meadows Nancekivell William, yeoman, Ford mill North Betworthy

Bromell William, farmer, Pick park Pennington Thomas & Wm. shoemakrs Dayman Jn. Hy.blacksmith,BucksCross

Burrow Jsph. farmr.&yeomn.Low. town Prouse John Cory, P.H. & carpenter Harding John, farmer

Burrow Thomas, farmer, Almanstone Robins Henry, farmer, Clifford Heywood Lomsa (Mrs.), farmer,

Cann Charles, farmer,Sth. Stroxworthy Sanders William, yeoman, Stroxworthy Stearts & Watersbute farms

Cann Thomas,yeoman, Ashmansworthy Sanguins John, dairyman Jewell Richard, fishmonger, West Bucks

Cory John, yeoman, Ashmansworthy ShortRichd. yeomn. & frmr.Westtowns Kallaway Hy. general dlr. West Bucks

Crews Thomas, farmer, Gorrel Slee Hryant, farmer, Lower Betworthy Slee Thomas, farmer, Bucks Cross

Davey Alfred, miller (water), Lane mill Stevens John, farmer, Ashmansworthy Warmington William, farmer & cattle

Dunn James, farmer, Lane l3arton Stevens John, farmer, Huddisford dealer, Bucks Barton

EAST WORLINGTON is a parish and village on the Bible! Christian chapel. The charities are of £6 121!. yearly
value, distributed in money. The Earl of Portsmouth D.L.,
Less3r Dart river, 5 miles north-east from the Lapford sta- J.P. is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The soil is
tion on the North Devon branch of the London and South red clay; the subsoil is clay. The chief crops are wheat,
Western railway, 9 south-east from South Molton and 6 east barley and oats. The acreage is 2,330 3R. 18P. ; East and
from Chulmleigh, in the Northern division of the county, West Worlington were amalgamated for civil purposes
Witheridge hundred, South Molton petLy sessional division, March 25th, 1885, rateable value jointly, £2,890; the popu-
union and county court district, rural deanery of Chulm- lation of East Worlington in 1891 was 419.
leigh, archdeaconry of Barnstavle and diocese of Exeter.
The church of St. Mary, thoroughly restored and almost Sexton, William Edwortby.

rebuilt in 1879 by the Earl of Portsmouth at a cost of£ r,ooo, PosT OF]j'JCE.-William Boundy, sub-postmaster. Cleared
is a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave, south at 6. 15 p.m. week days; letters from Morchard Bishop
porch with a Norman doorway, and an embattled "Western R.S.O. North Devon, arrive at 6 a.m. The nearest money
tower containing 4 bells: there is a monument in the chan- order & telegraph office is at Witheridge. Postal orders
eel to the members of the Nott family dated 1704, and one are issuea here, but not paid
in the nave Lo the Rev. Benjamin Clay M.A. a former rector,
d. 1763. The register dates from the year 1725. The liv- A School Board of 5 members was formed March 6th, 1874,
ing is a rectory, average tithe rent-charge £,157, gross for the united district of East & West Worlington; J.
yearly value £239, including 66 acres of glebe, with resi- Hannaford, clerk, Chulmleigh
dence, in the gift of the Earl of Portsmouth, and held since
x886 by the Rev. Thomas Holford Buck worth. Here is a Board School (mixed), built in 1875, for 8o children; aver-
age attendance, 46; John Smith, master

Buckworth Rev. Thos. Holford, Rectory Foss Charles, farmer, Stone Southwood John,farmer,Thornham frm

Headon Abraham, farml'. East Burrow Stone William, farmer, Rull

COMMERCIAL. Holmes William, blacksmith Troake John Stephen, farmer, Pidley

Ayre Michael, farmer, Horsford Lake Richj.rd, farmer, Coombe farm Tucker Richard, farmer, Yeatheridge

Blackford Wm. farmer, Briddle Burrow Lee George, farmer, Dineridge Vickery Albert, farmer, Blagrove

Burrows Richard, farmer, Wilson farm Lee John, farmer, Ruston Westaway Wm. farmr. Three Hammers

Clarke Walter, farmer, Lower Blagrove Mills John, farmer, Lower Burrow j Yendell Wm. shopkeeper & boot maker

Fewings William Henry, wheelwright Smyth Geo. John Cobley, farmer, Town

WEST WORLINGTON is an ecclesiastical parish, £140: there are 125 sittings. The register dates from the

united to East Worlington for civil purposes March 25, 1885, year 1694. The living is a rectory, average tithe rent-
and village, on the Lesser Dart, 6 miles north-east from charge £,121, net yearly value £ng, including 84 acres of
Lapford station on the North Devon section of the London glebe, with residence, in the gift of Sir G. S. Stucley hart.

and South Western railway, 6 east from Chulmleigh, 10 and held since r8g1 by the Rev. Horace Ayton Hill B.A. of
south-east from South 1\Iolton, 20 north-east from Exeter, Exeter College, Oxford. The charities are of £I 12s. yearly

in the Northern division of the county, Witheridgt! hundred, value. Affton Castle, the residence of the Affton family in

South Molton petty sessional division, union and county the 13th and 14th centuries, after being in ruins for many
court district, rural deanery of Chulmleigh, archdeaconry years, was restored in 1868 by Sir G. S. Stucley bart. and

of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. I is occupied by him as a shoo~ing box during the shooting

Ma.ry is an ancient building of stone in the Early English season: the embattled gateway of the ancient castle remains.

&tyle, consisting of chancel, nave, south porch, and a tower Sir George Stucley Stucley bart. D. L., .J.P. of Moreton, Hide-

with wooden spire containing 6 bells: in the church is a ford, is lord of the manor. The soil is loamy; subsoil,

fine monument to Sir Thomas Stucley kt. ob. September clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley. and oats The

2oth, 1663, whose brother and successor in the Affton estate, area is 2,683 acres ; rateable value included with East

Lewis Stucley, was chaplain to the Lord Protector; the Worlington ; the population in 1891 was 195.
chancel was restored and refurnished in 1881 at a cost of Parish Clerk, William Boundy.

678 WEST WORLI~GTO~. DEVONSHIRE.

Letters by foot post from Morchard Bishop R.S.O. arrive at This place is included in the United School Board District of

8 a.m.; dispatched at 6.25 p.m. The nearest money East & West Worlington

order & telegraph office is at Witheridge The children attend the East Worlington Board school
IHill Rev. Horace Ayton B.A. Rectory George Thos.Edwd.frmr.AffetonBarton Rice John, carpenter
Holmes Edmund, blacksmith Shapland John, farmer, Hensley

COMMERCIAL. Hosegood Matilda (Mr.;,), farmer, Shopland William, farmer, Roundsash

Butt Daniel, farmer Cottonhay Stone Robert, farmer, Litworthy

.Butt Richard, Stucley Arms P.H Hosegood William, farmer, Cobley frm Tucker William, farmer, Halse

.Darch William, farmer, Mouseberry Murch Alfred, farmer, Litworthy Webber John, farmer, Town

Edworthy Charles, thatcher Reade Richard, farmer, Cole park Weeks Samuel, miller (water)

·-yARCOMBE is a village and parish on the borders of · one erected in 1854 and the other in 1830. The charities
~Somerset, about 7 miles north-east from Honiton station on are of £46 yearly value. Sheafhayne House, the property

'the main line of the London and South West.ern railway and of Sir Francis ueorge Augustus Fuller-Eliot-Drake hart.

. 6 west from Chard, in the Eastern division of the county, who is lord of the manor and chief landowner, is the resi-

Axminster hundred, Honiton petty sessional division, deuce of Lionel Patton esq. The soil is loamy; the subsoil

, Chard union and county court district, rural deanery of is clay. The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and turnips.

Dunkeswell and Honiton, and archdeaconry and diocese of The area is 4,689 acres; rateable value, £6,1o6, the popu-

Exeter. The church of St. Peter is an ancient building of lation in 1891 was 647.

. s~one in the Decorated style, consisting of chancel, nave, Sexton, William Wakely.

-.atsles, transept, south porch, and an embattled western Po~T, ~,- B. .
tower containing a clock alinvding5 bells. The register dates M: 0. & T. 0., & 1Annmty & Insurance Office.-
value is a. vicarage, tithe rent-
Jrom the year 1551 . The Francts Ma;yne Hardmg, sub-pos.tmaster. Letters through
gross yearly [ 486, including 2 8 acres of
• 1Charge £ 38g, Chard .recetved at 8.15 a.m.; dispatched at 5 p.m

glebe, with residence, in the gift of the Crown, and held Parochial School (mixed), erected in 1872, for go children:

. since 1866 by the Rev. Mortimer William Ford B.A. of averag-e attendance, 70; Samuel Culverwell, master;

Trinity College, Cambridge. Here are two Baptist chapels, Miss Zillah Culverwell, mistress

Ford Rev. Mortimer Wm. B. A. Vicarage Goodland Henry, farmer, Foxenholes Potter Solomon, carpenter
l'a.tton Lionel, Sheafhayne house Grabham John, farmer, Shorthayne Powell Joseph, grocer
Greedy Robert, farmer, Woodhayu.e Prmg John, farmer, North Waterhayne
COMMERCIAL.
Harding Fras.Mayne, shopkpr.Post off Palmer Harriet(Mt·s.),frmr.Sheafhayne
. .Aplin Robert, farmer, Higher Stout Hoare James, farmer, Elscombe Palmer Thomas, home steward & farm
.Arbery John, farmer, Higher Pithayne Huish Richard, farmer, Clifthays
Batten Bartholomew, shoe maker Hurford Benjamin, farmer, Northam bailiff to Sir Francis G. A. Fuller-
Board Charles, Globe inn Hurford Samuel, farmer, Chaffhay Eliot-Drake hart. New barn
. Board Joseph, blacksmith Hurford William, farmer, Birch mills Price William, farmer, Knapp
'Bright Richard, butcher Hutchings Henry, farmer, Marsh Pring James, farmer, Court place
• Clark John, farmer, Broadleigh Kibby William, farmer, Moorhayne Rosewell William, farmer, Crowcombe
·"Clarke Page, farmer, Underdown Lawrence John, cooper Russell James, farmer, Coalburns &
·..ClarkP. Sidney, farmer, Blackhays Lawrence William, thatcher miller (watet·) & baker, Stout mill
<::oombes William, carpenter Lentall William, farmer, Williambere Spiller John, blacksmith
Dolling- James, Drakes Arms P.H Matthews Hy. farmer,Sth.Waterhayne Spiller Robert, farmer, Peterhays
Dyer ThomJ.s, butcher, Keat's mills Matthews John, jun. farmer, Hay Trott Thomas, mason
Edwards Charlotte (Mrs.), farmer, Webber Jemima (Mrs. ),farmer, Hill ho
Miller George, farmer, Birch oak
Levenhays Miller John, farmer, Stout Wright Thomas, Yarcombe inn
Edwards James, farmer, Knightshayne Mullins Henry, wheelwright Willey John, farmer, Plots
Farmer Thomas, farmer, "'atchford Northcote Thomas, farmer, Rosshayne Wyatt James, farmer, Pithayne
Farrant Thomas, carpenter Wyatt Thomas, farmer, Lye

YARNSCOMBE is a parish and village 2l miles south- managed by trustees; there are also charities ot £1 1os.

west from Chapelton and 4 miles west from Umberleigh yearly, given by deed poll, for the benefit of the poor; and
station on the North Devon branch of the London and Sou~h £2 to be distributed in bread. Yarnscombe Court, which
Western railway, about 5~ east from Torrington, 8 south was once a seat of the Cock worthy family and afterwards of
from Barnstaple and 10 west from South Molton, in the the ancestors of the Right Hon. Sir G. Otto Trevelyan hart.

Northern division of the county, hundred of Hartland, petty P.c. is now a farm-house. Delly, an old manor house, much

~essional division, union and county court district of Tor- improved, is the property of Capt. John Edgcombe Love-

rington, rural deanery of Torrington, archdeaconry of Barn- band, whose family has held land here Rince 1314, it is
:staple and diocese of Exeter. The church of St. Andrew is occupied as a farm. Northchurch was the residence of

an ancient building of stone in the Perpendicular style, con- the Lovebands from 1314, but it passed to the Rolles in

sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, south porch, and an 1878 who also purchased from them the estate known as
embattled tower on the north side containing 6 bells, the Graylake. The Hon. Mark George Kerr Rolle D.L., J.P. of

first three dated respectively 1709, 1631 and 1608 : the Bicton, is lord of the manor and chief landowner. The
chancel retains a piscina: there is an octagonal font of the manor of Little Yarnscombe belongs to the Rev. Charles

Tudor period, and the ancient staircase to the rood loft Wellington Furse M.A., J.P. canon of Westminster; that of

remains and some ancient stained glass: on the north side Yarnscombe Hankford is the property of the Misses Bellew.

of the chancel, within a low-arched recess, is an altar-tomb, The soil is clayey; subsoil, clay. The chief crops are wheat,

the npper slab of which bears a partly effaced inscription to oats and barley. The acreage is 3,047; rateable value,

John Cockworthy and his wife, of the 15th century; the £1,989; the population in xBgx was 294.

church contains besides several monuments of the Loveband Sexton, William Tout.

family from 168o, including one to the Rev. A. W. Loveband Letters through Barnstaple received at II a.m. The nearest
money order office is at High Bickington. Nearest tale-
M. A. vicar d. 1878; also memorials of the Trevelyans ( 1623), graph office, Umberleigh railway station

Pollards (1667) and Champneys (1681); the church was re- LETTER Box cleared at 3·30 p.m
paired and a vestry added in 1852, and the whole church was A School Board of 5 members was formed October 26,
thoroughly rest11red in 1888: there are 160 sittings. The
1877 i H. Thorne, Langridgeford, clerk to the board &
register dates from the year 11o665,3n. etTyheealrilvyinvgalius ea vicarage, attendance officer
average tithe rent-charge £ £ 120, in- Board School (milced), built in 1878, for 68 children: aver-

eluding 30 acres of glebe, with residence, in the gift of the . age attendance 52; William A. Nash, master; Mrs. Nash,

Lord Chancellor, and held since 1882 by the Rev. John assistant mistress

Blood Singleton. There is an estate of 36 acres, producing

£20 a. year, for the repair of the school and church, which is

Singleton Kev. John Blood, Vicarage 1 Hoyle Abel, farmer, Shortridge Thorne Frederick, farmer, Cogworthy

COMMERCIAL, Martin John, farmer, Luckleborough Thorne Henry, farmer, Graylake

Bolt Anthony, carpenter Mitchell Thomas, farmer, Bude Tucker Anthony, shoe maker

Clark Thomas, farmer, Langridge ford OatwayAnthony,frmr.Highr.Nrthchrch Tucker Richard, blacksmith

Daneford Thomas, miller (water), Oatway Rd. farmer, Yarnscombe court Turner Richd. miller (water),Buckmls

Court mills Oatway Thomas, farmer, Ley Woolcott Samuel, farmer, Delly

Down John, farmer, Chappel Richards Thos. farmr. Low.Delworthy Woolcott Thomas, farmer, Orchard

Ellis Willia.m, shoe maker Richards Thomas, jun. farmer, Cleve Yeo William, farmer, Church combe

Ford Richard, farmer, Ward Simmonds Hy. farmer, Low. ShP.rwood

YEALMPTON, or YAMPTON', is a parish and village, I division of the county, Plympton hundred, Ermington and

pleasantly eituated 5 miles south-east from Plympton Plympton petty sessional division, Plympton St. Mary union,
station on the South Devon section of the Great Western East Stonehouse county court district, rural deanery ~f

railway and 7 south-east from Plymouth, in the Southern Plympton, archdeaconry of Totnes and diocese of Exeter.

DIRECTORY.] DEVONSHIRE. _. 6i9

YEALMPTO~.

The river Yea1m runs through the parish and flows into the Parish Clerk, Philip Luke.

sea at Wembury. The church of St. Bartholomew is a POS'L', M. 0. & T. 0., S. B. & Annuity & Insurance Office.-

building of stone in mixed styles, consisting of chancel, John H. Blackler, sub-postmaster. Letters from Plymouth,

nal"e, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower delivered at 7·5 a.m. & 3.30 p.m.; sundays, 7-5 a.m.;

containing a clock and 6 bells~ four of thewindowsare dispatchedatw.Ioa.m.&6.xsp.m.; sundays, IO.IOa.m•

.stained: it was rebuilt, with the exception of the tower, in WALL LETTER Box, Vicarage Wall, cleared only week day11

x8so, at a cost of about £7,ooo, defrayed by the late 6 p.m

Edmund Rodney Pollexfen Bastard esq. to whom there is a WALL LETTER Box Yealm Bridge, cleared 9·45 a.m. & 5·45

memorial window, erected by his friends and tenants: the p.m. week days only '

.columns which separate the nave and aisles are alternately COUNTY MAGISTRATES FOR ERMINGTON & PLYMPTON PETTY

Qf polished and rough marble of various colours: the screen SESSIONAL DIVISION.

between the chancel and nave is of carved marble, and the Allen Edward esq. Stowford lodge, Ivybridge

.communion table consists of a carved oak frame, supporting Bastard Baldwin John Pollexfen esq.o.L.Kitley, Yealmpton,

.a m1ssive marble slab quarried in the locality: the font is Plymouth .

Qf the same material and the walls are inlaid with marbles Bewes Cecil Edward esq. Hill side, Ridgeway, Plympton

Qf various kinds : in the north aisle is a brass, with effigy Buller Vice-Admiral Alexander o.B. Erie hall, Plympton

in armour, and inscription to Sir John Crocker, cup and Bulteel John esq. Pamflete, Ivybridge

.standard bearer to King Edward IV. who distinguished Bulteel Thomas esq. Radford, Plymstock, Plymouth

himself in suppressing Perkin Warbeck's rebellion in 1497; Conran Capt. William Adam, Blacklands, Plympton

<()b. 13 March, xso8. The register dates from the year 1630. Cory Richard esq. Laugdon court, Plymouth ·

The living is a vicarage, average tithe rent-charge £253, MacAndrew James Johnston esq. Lukesland, Ivybridge

net yearly value £212, with residence, in the gift of the Mildmay Francis Bingham esq. lt:.P., B.A. Flete, Holbeton,

Bishop of Exeter, and held since 181!8 by the Rev. George Ivybridge

Girdlestone Woodhouse B.A. of Christ Church, Oxford. 1Parker Admiral George, Delamore, Ivybridge

Here is a Wesleyan Methodist chapel. At Yealm-bridge Phillipps-Treby Major-General PaulWinsloe R.A..Goodamoor,

.are chair, cabinet and flock works, worked by water power, Plympton

and employing a large number of hands, carried on by Pitman Rev. William Daniel M.A. Rectory, Aveton Giffard,

Messrs. William Snawdon and Sons: there are also marble Kingsbridge

and granite works, and severallimestonequarries. In 1858 Pitts Nicholas William Prettejohn esq. Whympstone,. Mod~

Charles Anthony bestowed £36 yearly for clothes, bedding, bury, Ivybridge

.coals and to provide necessaries for the sick poor; and at Pode John Duke esq. M. A. Slade, Cornwood, Ivybridge

bis dP.ath left £6o yearly to clothe 6 old men and 6 old Soltau-Symons George esq. o. L. Chaddlewood, Plympton

women and for educating and clothing 30 children. A cattle Stuart-Hawkins Christopher esq. Alston house, Plympton

market is held the fourth Wednesday in each month. A Williams Michael esq. M.A. Gnaton hall, Newton Ferrers,

.Sessions House and Police Station was built in 1864. There Plymouth .

is a reading room and library, supported by subscriptions. Yonge John esq. B.A. Puslinch ho NewtonFerrers,Plymouth

"The Crocker family, long resident at Lyneham in this parish, Clerk to the Magistrates, J. Loye, Plymouth

is now merged in the Bulteels, of Pamfiete, in the parish of Petty Session are held alternate mondays at the Sessions

Holbeton. Kitley, a fine Elizabethan mansion on the houses at Yealmpton, Ridgway, Modbury & Ivybridge

.estuary of the Yealm, and containing a good collection of The following places are included in the petty sessional

paintings, is the seat of Baldwin John Pollexfen Bastard esq. division: Aveton Giffard, Bigbury, Brixton, Cornwood,

D.L.,J.P. lord of the manor and principal landowner; the Ermington, Harford, Holbeton, Kingston, Modbury, New-

family of the present owner has been seated in De\"onshire ton Ferrers, Plympton St. Mary, Plympton Maurice1
'.since the period of the Norman Conquest. The soil is light; Plymstock, Revelstoke, Ringmore, Ugborough, Wem-

.and the subsoU, limestone and marble in great variety bury, Yealmpton

The chief crops are wheat, barley and roots. The acreage is Police Station, William Jones, constable in charge

,3,ooo acres; rateable value, £5,752; the population in National School (mixed), built in 1876, for x6o children;

1891 was 879. average attendance, 125; John Brown, master

WORCESTON, :r mile north-east, DuNSTONR, x east, and CARRIERS TO PLYMOUTH.-George Chaffe, Joseph Tapper &

LYN:t<:HAM, r north, are hamlets in this parish. Joseph Tucker, tues. thurs. & sat.

PRIVATE RESIDENTS. lllackler Jn.Hingston,saddlr.Post office Martin Elizabeth (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Adkins Joshua Edward,Elm Tree house Brooking Harry, farmer & dairyman Matthews Richard, farmer, Way farm
Anthony Frank, Yealmbury cottage Chaffe George, carrier Mcathrel Henry, plumber
Barnes Misses, Valetta, Yealm bridge Chaffe Henry, jobmaster Partridge Susan (Mrs.), shopkeeper
Bastard Baldwin Jn. Pollexfen J.P.,D.L. Coom · Claude S. private school, The Pearce Richard, shopkeeper
Pearse J. & C. (M1sses), ironmongers
Kitley ; & Buckland court,Ashburton Retreat PedrickArthur,blacksmith, Yealm brdg
Bastard William Edmund Pollexfen Cornish William, boot maker Perring John, draper & mason
Collier Frederick Joseph, market gar- Perrott Alfred J. W. farmer, Efford
J.P. Lyneham house Heading Room & Library (Miss Sarah
Brown John dener, Yealm bridge
Eetts Nathaniel P. Sunnyside Cross Francis William, grocer, Barrett, caretaker)
.Coom Claude S. The Retreat Robins Henry Triggs, Yealmpton inn
<Cornthwaite Uharles draper & coal merchant Rudd John, baker
Dawe Miss, Yealmbury villa Cross Jas. Chas. collector of highways Shepherd Mary(Mrs.),frmr. WestPitton
Dent Mrs. Speculation Davis Richard George, carpenter Snawdon William & Sons, furniture
ElliottWm.ErnestLloyd.M.B.Yealm cot Elliott William Ernest Lloyd M.B.,c.M.
manufacturers, Yealmpton sawing
Grantham Joseph, Paradise surgeon, Yealm cottage mills ; & at Plymouth
J'amieson Mrs. Yealm lodge Ellis Alfred. farmer, Worceston Southwood Wm. Hy. butcher & farmer
Lindon Miss, Church cottage Ellis John Duder, farmer, Dunstone Symons Samuel, blacksmith
Pethed .ioseph Ford John Stranger, yeoman & farmer Symons Theodore, blacksmith
.Shillabeer William, Woodbine cottage Gullett Frederick W. Steam marble Tall George A. carpenter
Snawdon Henry, Yealm Bridge house Tapper Joseph, carrier, Longbrook
.Snawdon Samuel, Yealm Bridge house works. See advertisement Tippett Henry, tailor
Venning John, Yeo cottage Hammick Richard, shopkeeper Toms William, farmer, Winsor
Woodhouse Re\•, George Girdlestone Harris John, farmer, East Pitton Treneman John, farmer, Wilberton
Husband Ann (Mrs.), Volunteer inn Vanstone Elizh. (Mrs.), frmr. Dunstone
B.A. The Vicarage Hodge Edwin & Jas. I. millers (water) Webb Robert Mason White,registrar of
COMMERCIAL. Kingcombe Annie(Mrs.),baker & grocer births & deaths for South sub-dis-
Kingcome Samuel, painter & glazier trict of Plympton St. Mary union,
Adkins Joshua Edward, surgeon, ad- Lavers Christr. H.estate clerk of works Dunstone
miralty surgeon, certifying factory Lee John, baker Willcocks John, farmer, "Winsor
surgeon & medical officer & public Lee Samuel Fice, butcher
vaccinator, No. 4 district, Plympton Luke Philip, builder
union, Elm Tree house Mann William, wheelwright

2tZEAL MONACHORU.M is a parish and village, Dane to the Abbey of Buckfastleigh. The church of St.
miles south-west from the Morchard Hoad station on the Peter is a building in the Early Perpendicular style, con-

North Devon branch of the London and South Western rail- sisting of chancel, nave, south aisle, north transept, south
way, 7 north-west from Crediton and 15~ north-west from porch and an embattled western tower, with pinnacles, con-
Exeter, in the Northern division of the county, North Taw- taining a clock and 5 bells, cast by Thomas Bilbie in 1749:

ton hundred, Crediton petty sessional dtvision, union and there is a fine stained east window, and other windows were

county court district, rural deanery of Chulmleigh, arch- renewed at the expense of the late Rev. H. J. A. Fothergill,
deaconry of Barnstaple and diocese of Exeter. 'fhis place a former rector, and his family: there are 200 sittings: the
derives its name suffix from having been given by Knut the register dates from the year I594· The living is a rectory,

680 ZEALMONACRORUM, DEVONSHIRE. [KELL~'s DIRECTORY.)

average tithe rent-charge £3r8, net yearly value £332, in- Richard Davy esq. M.B. owning the manor of Burstone-,

cluding 51 acres of gleLe, with residence, in the gift of and R. A. Hole esq. M.A. J. G. Kelland esq. William Kelland

held since r886 by the Rev. Edwin Thomas Alien B.A. of esq. of Exeter, Mr. G. Brock, Mr. James Snell, Mr. G.

Trinity College, Dublin. The charities are of the annual Raymont, Mrs. E. Snell, William Wreford esq. J.P. and

value of £rs, £12 of which, left by F. Hole, is distributed in the Rev. E. 'f. Alien B.A. rector, are the principal land.

clothing and the remainder in money. There is also a gift of owners. Little Loosebeare belongs to William Snell esq. of

£2 yearly in bread to the poor, the payment of which is Steeple Court, Botley, Hants. Burstone House, an inherit-

chargeable on the manor of Great Foldhay. Weeks Hole ance from the Sweet family, is the property and residence of

esq. who died in 1768, gave the snm of £roo for the educa- Richard Davy esq. M.B.,F.R.c.s.,F.R.s. Great Foldhay, the

tion of poor children of this parish. Robert Parker, who original seat of the Hole family, was purchased in 1886 by

died in 1730, left a benefaction to the poor, derivable from William Kelland esq. Little Foldhay belongs t() Mr. Jghn

the manor of Burrow in Morthoe parish. William Henry Kel- Bushell ; Burrow to Richard Aram Hole esq. M. A. o( Th~ Firs,

land esq. of Torr Down, Exbourne, founded in r887 a charity Middle Warberry road, Torquay, it having been in his family

to the poor, to be called "the Colmore gift," in memory of for several generations. Gillhouse, formerly the property

the family of that name. In r887 a reservoir was con- of the late W. Snell-Hill esq. now belongs to the Misses

structed and pipes laid conveying a supply of water through- Hill. The soil is red loam and clay; the subsoil is rocky.

out the village, at the sole expense of Richard Davy esq. of The chief crops are wheat, barley, oats and roots. The

Burstone. Christian Jeffery died here in 1868 at the age of acreage is 3, 86t ; rateable value, £3,346; the population in

103. The Colmore family were settled here and at Loxbeare 1891 was 405. .

for nearly three centuries. The manors of Zeal Monachorum Sexton, Thomas Castle.

and Loosebeare, or Loxbe::tre, belonged in 1590 to the Sey- Letters through Bow R.S.O. the nearest money order & tele-
graph office, arrive at 7 a.m
mours, ancestors of the Dukes of Somerset, from whom they
passed by marriage to the Parkers, created Barons Boring- WALL LETTER Box, cleared 6.55 a.m. & 6.20 p.m

don and Earls of Morley, by whom they were sold in 1737, A School Board of 5 members was formed January 15th,
Loosebeare being purchased by Richard Kelland esq. of 1875; Rev. Edwin Thomas Allen B. A. rector, clerk to the
board & attendance officer
Lapford, and Zeal by Henry Ley esq. of Trehill. John Henry
Francis Ley esq. of Trehill Kenn, who is now lord of the

manor of Zeal, and John Kelland esq. M.A., J.P. of The Board School(mixed), for roB children; average attendance,.

Manor, Totnes, who is lord of that of Loosebeare; Robert 66; Peter Coliver Hodder, master; Miss Fanny Grant~

Pedler esq. John Pedler esq. William Carter Pedler esq. assistant mistress

Alien Rev. Edwin Thomas B.A. [rector] Bushell Mary (Mrs.), farmer Pedler William Carter,farmr. Burstone
Davy Richard M.B., F.R.c.s. Burstone Pedler William George Quick, farmer-,
Castle Thomas, shopkeeper & sexton
house; & 33 Welbeck st. London w Barons wood
Hill Misses, Laurels Cheriton Richard, farmer, Newton Pike William, farmer, Waie
Pedler Robert, Higher Bnrstone Raymont George Morris, farmer~
Pedler William Carter, Burstone Clotworthy John, tailor
Pedler Wm. Geo. Quick, Barons wood Higher Week
Cole Abraham, farmer Raymont John, farmer, Thorn
COMMERCIAL. Searles Robert, farmer, Gill house
Arnold Robert, baker & shopkeeper Cooper William, carpenter Snell Geo. assist. overseer, Nymphayes
Baker Thomas, boot & shoe maker Snell George,North Star P.H. & farme:r
Beer Thomas, farmer & carrier . Down John, farmer, Lower Newton Snell James, farmer, Bnrstone
Snell James, farmer, Nymphayes
Blackmore John, millwright Gibbings Robert, farmer, Burrow Townsend William, farmer & carrier
Blackmore John, miller (water) Wheaton Joseph, farmer, Serston
Brearly Joseph, mason Grendon James, farmer, Sutton
Bnshell John, jun.farmer & landowner, White Jas. farmr. & cattle dealr.Hayne-
Hooper John, blacksmith
Little Foldhay
Hopkins Samuel, boot & shoe maker

Merchant John, Burstone inn, & farmr

Mitchell 'fhomas, tailor '

Moon John, farmer, Hoiles

Pedler Robert, farmer & landowner,

Higher Burstone

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